Brian De Palma’s next film is PASSION and if that image is any indication, it will be a must see. The auteur responsible for DRESSED TO KILL, CARRIE, SCARFACE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, and the extremely underrated FEMME FATALE is currently filming his latest with Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams with a teaser trailer expected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
PASSION is a remake of the 2010 French film LOVE CRIME and follows McAdams and Rapace as two businesswomen engaged in some kind of professional battle. From the looks of the images and poster released so far, that battle may get a little personal, too.
Plot: An erotic thriller in the tradition of “Dressed To Kill” and “Basic Instinct”, Brian de Palma’s PASSION tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine possesses the natural elegance and casual ease associated with one who has a healthy relationship with money and power. Innocent, lovely and easily exploited, her admiring protégé Isabelle is full of cutting-edge ideas that Christine has no qualms about stealing. They’re on the same team, after all… Christine takes pleasure in exercising control over the younger woman, leading her one step at a time ever deeper into a game of seduction and manipulation, dominance and humiliation. But when Isabelle falls into bed with one of Christine’s lovers, war breaks out. On the night of the murder, Isabelle is at the ballet, while Christine receives an invitation to seduction. From whom? Christine loves surprises. Naked she goes to meet the mystery lover waiting in her bedroom…
You had me at erotic thriller.