Anyone who’s ever had a control-freak boss should be able to relate to “Love Crime,” a super-cool thriller in the style of Alfred Hitchcock and Claude Chabrol.
Kristin Scott Thomas plays Christine, a senior executive at a multinational corporation, headquartered in Paris, who shamelessly takes credit for successful ideas thought up by her protegée, the bespectacled Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier, of “Swimming Pool” renown).
To complicate matters, both women are having an affair with the same fellow exec, Philippe (Patrick Mille).
“I’ve had a lot of bitchy female bosses in my day, but none as bitchy as you,” Isabelle tells Christine after discovering her duplicity. Isabelle then comes up with an intricate plan for revenge that will have viewers enjoyably baffled.
“Love Crime,” directed and co-written by the late Alain Corneau, brings to mind “Working Girl” and “The Devil Wears Prada” — but it has delightful differences only the French could conjure up, plus a musical soundtrack from jazz saxophone great Pharoah Sanders.