For the first couple of reels this is little more than Mike Nichol's 'Working Girl' with a French accent then Corneau subtly changes gear and ups the ante. To be honest I would have wished Corneau a better swansong than this. The film he made immediately prior to this - a genuine remake of Melville's Le Deuxieme Soufflé - was flawed and one longed for him to get back to the great days personified by Police Python 357. I've always had an aversion to Ludo Sagnier just as she long had an aversion to working with her clothes on (ironically, this time around she even coyly pulls a sheet around her to get out of bed) the truth of the matter is she's just that that much of an actress naked or fully clothed. No matter, Kristin Scott Thomas is well up to the task of carrying Sagnier - and most everyone else too, if anybody asks you. It's pleasant enough though the twists are not so much turns of the screw as rotations of a thumb-tack. Good for one viewing.
Review of Love Crime
