Love Crime (Crime d'amour) (2010)

It is hastily acted as though there wasn't time or concern for anything other than a first take, and it is as sparse as a Simenon novel without a frame or word of dialogue wasted, making this French thriller about corporate rivals and murder an uninvolving but nonetheless intriguing slip of a story.

★★★☆☆

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Swimming Pool (2003)

A mystery writer on deadline retreats to her publisher's Spanish hacienda to really engross herself in writing but instead becomes engrossed in the publisher's wayward sex-kitten daughter unexpectedly there - she creates mayhem but will surely provide enough fodder to ease the writer's writer's block, in this suspense thriller full of all the right ingredients but sadly undercooked.

★★★☆☆

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