Rivalry between the manager of an advertising agency and her customer relationship manager, orchestrated by Brian De Palma. Starring Noami Rapace and Rachel McAdams.

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Sexy, flamboyant and dominating, Christine, an American expat (Rachel McAdams), runs the Berlin subsidiary of an advertising agency. She takes credit for the brilliant campaign devised by Isabelle, her charming customer relationship manager (Noami Rapace) and the CRM's assistant, which got over 10,000 hits right after being posted for the first time. But the chemistry between the two women soon fizzles, especially when Christine's boyfriend has an affair with Isabelle. This motivates Christine to humiliate Isabelle, who slowly loses control and begins to take too many sleeping pills...

Brian de Palma is back with this remake of Alain Corneau's Crime d'amour, and that in itself is good news. It's too bad that the first part of Passion has the quality of a bad episode of Derrick, before it picks up again at the end. The last half hour is an authentic condensation of the works of a brilliant American filmmaker – murder; split-screen; virtuoso photography; a lesbian relationship; perversion; manipulation, first of characters, then of the audience; omnipresent cameras; a mix of dream and reality, etc. – and reminds not so young viewers of the former pleasure provided by Dressed to Kill, Obsession and Blow Up.