Less mysterious than confusing, Passion, writer-director Brian De Palma’s latest thriller, attempts to translate the eroticism of Dressed to Kill and some of the psychology of Raising Cain to the 21st-century corporate world. The problem is, in the decades since those films were made, technological and viewer sophistication has evolved exponentially. Moviegoers are going to realize immediately that an email composed before the event to which it refers is never going to pass muster—and the author is savvy enough to know better. Unfortunately, this is just the most obvious flaw in a high-minded script about two ambitious, backstabbing bitches.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows co-stars Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace reunite as icy blonde ad exec Christine and her secretive brunette protégé, Isabelle. (There’s also a loyal redhead assistant named Dani, played by Karoline Herfurth.)
Gorgeously photographed by José Luis Alcaine (a frequent Pedro Almodóvar collaborator) and dressed in some scandalous lingerie by Karen Muller Surreau (who worked on Coco Before Chanel), McAdams captures the by-turns warm embrace and cold manipulation of a mentor who befriends her co-worker just to use her. With her eye on New York from her post at an international ad agency in Berlin, she casually takes credit for Isabelle’s genius viral marketing idea.
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