{"id":9222,"date":"2014-08-16T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2014-08-15T22:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T03:52:59","slug":"passion-2012-brian-de-palma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9222","title":{"rendered":"Passion (2012, Brian De Palma)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A twisty triple-cross murder thriller, sleek and sexy and fun while it&#8217;s playing, with very good performances, but pretty instantly forgettable.  Too bad, I was hoping for another <em>Femme Fatale<\/em>.  American remake of Alain Corneau&#8217;s final film <em>Crime d&#8217;amour<\/em> which starred Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/passion2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Rachel McAdams (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9044\">To The Wonder<\/a><\/em>) steals credit for her employee Noomi Rapace&#8217;s successful advertising idea, is in line for a big promotion, and is dating hottie Paul Anderson who is stealing from the company on the side.  Noomi (also great in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7752\">Prometheus<\/a><\/em>) does all the work while Rachel enjoys being rich and powerful, repeatedly humiliating Noomi until she murders Rachel in the midst of a downward spiral of pill addiction with blue-toned noir lighting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/passion5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/passion4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>But wait! After being arrested Noomi manages to prove her innocence with some belated evidence and pin it on the boyfriend instead.  And she&#8217;s secretly dating her hot red-haired secretary Dani (Karoline Herfurth of <em>We Are The Night<\/em>, not <em>We Own The Night<\/em>). The ending gets confusing, since Rachel is apparently alive again (Wikipedia says it&#8217;s her twin sister but whatever) and poor Dani gets murdered by either Noomi, Rachel, Rachel&#8217;s sister or maybe a ghost or it didn&#8217;t happen at all, I dunno.  I figured it as a twist on the twist ending, not actually revealing how the final murder happened.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/passion1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/passion3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>De Palma&#8217;s still got the smoothest moving camera in the business (shot by veteran DP Jos\u00e9 Luis Alcaine, who did at least six Almodovar movies), an excellent looking and sounding movie.  I feel like I should&#8217;ve liked it more &#8211; not that anyone else did (A. Tracy&#8217;s takedown in Cinema Scope is the most amusing of the bunch).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A twisty triple-cross murder thriller, sleek and sexy and fun while it&#8217;s playing, with very good performances, but pretty instantly forgettable. Too bad, I was hoping for another Femme Fatale. American remake of Alain Corneau&#8217;s final film Crime d&#8217;amour which starred Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas. Rachel McAdams (To The Wonder) steals credit for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,38,1820,1819,661],"class_list":["post-9222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-brian-de-palma","tag-noomi-rapace","tag-rachel-mcadams","tag-split-screen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9241,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9222\/revisions\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}