Love Crime (2010) poster
2010 · thriller · crime · mystery · political

Love Crime

Directed by Alain Corneau1h 44m2010
ElsewhereIMDb6.56kRT64%Metacritic63
  • sombre
  • bleak
  • cold
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Sombre, steady, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In the sterile setting of a powerful multinational, a ruthless corporate executive and her ambitious protégée bare their claws in a vicious battle for supremacy.

Our read · Love Crime (2010) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded thriller · crime · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a sleek French corporate thriller about ambition and revenge.

ends unsettlingit stays with youa rollercoastergrips by minute 12attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if office power games, sex and murder plots will stress you out.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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