Wednesday 5 March 2014

Passion (2012) 7/10

Starring : Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth, Paul Anderson
Director : Brian De Palma
Running Time : 97 mins

Isabelle James (Rapace) is something of a talent in the advertising world, but when she comes up with a great ad campaign for jeans, her boss Christine Stanford (McAdams) takes the credit. Their back-and-forth rivalry begins to escalate, from going behind each other’s backs to publicly humiliating each other, but when Christine is murdered Isabelle becomes the prime suspect, and even she isn’t sure if she killed her or not.

This movie actually does a reasonably good job of building up the tension between the two lead characters before apparently killing one of them off, and De Palma’s style really does a good job of spelling everything out for us while simultaneously tricking us into thinking that certain events that haven’t happened happen. He even uses his Carrie-like split screen part of the way through, but the use of dream sequences makes this a little confusing at times, and by the end I wasn’t entirely sure what had and hadn’t occurred.

You’ll like this if you liked : Chloe



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