Love Crime (2010)

Business is business. There are some very good films about the cruelty of competition, the monsters people can become when they turn themselves (or are turned into) competitors. Sadly, Love crime is not one of these, even though it offers a few moments of sleazy entertainment. Alain Corneu goes for the excessive, the violent and the ... well, sleazy. The acting is not exactly top-notch and many of the twists and turns are overwrought. The story examines the relation between a senior exec and a junior exec. Manipulation turns into revenge. Skullduggery at the office, competition between women. Schemes: everywhere. There are erotic bonds, some of which are quite obvious, while some are harder to get one's head around (the relation between the two women). One of the trite plot solutions is to introduce a man to whom both are attracted. And then there's the murder, executed together with a score of schmaltzy dinner jazz.