PASSION

Sex, sin, terror and torment, de Palma style.

With bountiful betrayal and abundant bitchiness, Passion is a classic Brian de Palma (Redacted, MIFF 2008) psychological thriller - complete with the requisite battling beauties. Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams play against type as corporate-climbing colleagues locked in a professional power struggle that soon takes a turn toward the personal.

Steeped in the filmmaker's own back catalogue, and shaped by his trademark flourishes, the pulpy, neo-noir remaking of Alain Corneau's final film, Love Crime, is as visually arresting as it is emotionally lurid. As obsessions spiral into a seductive symphony, the hallucinations and humiliations are amplified with every dramatic interaction between the fated femmes fatales, accompanied by a bawdy sense of humour.

"Passion is a serpentine, gorgeously orchestrated gathering of all of de Palma's pet themes and conceits." - Slant

D/S Brian de Palma P Saïd Ben Saïd Dist Transmission Films TD DCP/2012