Crime d'amour [Love Crime]
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Crime d'amour (Love Crime) is a 2010 French psychological suspense thriller starring Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott-Thomas. It is the last film directed by Alain Corneau, and was released posthumously after the director's death from cancer.
The story revolves around an experienced, ruthless, and emotionally sadistic business executive (Scott-Thomas), and her young assistant (Sagnier), who, after undergoing a series of professional and personal humiliations at the hands of Scott-Thomas, kills her. Sagnier implicates herself in the crime, seemingly a sign of an oncoming nervous breakdown, and her defense may prove even more difficult than anticipated. A subplot revolves around Scott-Thomas's boyfriend, who is also apparently romancing Sagnier, and is guilty of embezzlement.
The film opened in the U.S. in September 2011 in limited release, and is slowly making its way around the U.S. As in Sarah's Key, it is in both French and English - the English being spoken only when the characters have to deal with clients who do not speak French.