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Love Crime (2010)

The rare case of a remake improving upon the original movie

[6/10 · 2 October 2022]

"Crime d'Amour" (2010) was remade two years later by Brian De Palma as "Passion"; it could be partly because I saw "Passion" first, but I do think it is the more entertaining film. Alain Corneau is an arthouse director making a thriller, keeping it clinical and dry; Brian De Palma is (primarily) a thriller director making a thriller, embracing the lurid side of things and having fun with it. The script is also more streamlined in "Passion"; after a very similar (sometimes scene-for-scene) first half, it morphs into a whodunit. In "Crime d'Amour", the "who" is revealed instantly, and as a result the second half drags (one slip-up by De Palma, which was done correctly in the original, was having Christine write the incriminating e-mail BEFORE and not after Isabelle's public humiliation, something that could be easily checked). This film is still worth seeing, however, mainly for Ludvine Sagnier's superb showing. **1/2 out of 4.