Passion

(Viewed on 08/02/14): De Palma needs to retire. This is like a poor imitation of his style made by a far less experienced director. Rachel McAdams is a pretty woman, but she has all the sex appeal of a typical upper middle class wasp(i.e none). Overall this lacks the sensual sleaziness of De Palma's best work in the psycho-thriller genre, and has none of the lurid thrills or campy humour of his best work. It's not even visually interesting, which for De Palma fans is the final insult.

Another masterpiece Brian De Palma. Lush and sleazy in the best way possible, De Palma's approach to filmmaking is refreshing in comparison to today's thrillers. The performances from Noomi Rapace and especially Rachel McAdams are fantastic.

Infinitamente superior ao filme de Alain Corneau.

"Passion is a serpentine, gorgeously orchestrated gathering of all of De Palma's pet themes and conceits." - Ed Gonzalez

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If this was just rachel mcadams porn it would have been 8/10

Mean Girls in the business world...

#14#, story, Rachel.McA!/7A5

A perplexingly uneven thriller from veteran De Palma. Let's start with the final third of the movie, because it's actually quite good, with plenty of taut, tense scenes and cunning reveals. If only the first 2/3 had been remotely similar! Instead they're a sprawl of stilted, stylised Eurotrash drama, set in some shiny yet curiously empty corporate world, and with plot devices out of a second-rate TV soap. The actresses don't seem to mind that the vapid script mocks them at every turn. Bizarre.

Tacky, cheesy, hammy, contrived. Just not my style at all.

I really, really liked the first 2/3rds of this movie. And then the last three scenes told me that Brian De Palma thinks I'm a fucking idiot for liking his movie.

Casting didn't work for me, and I suspect BDP too as he's done much better at this sort of thing -Sisters for one. There is something to it though, perhaps the original did it better.

DePalma has been meh for years. I tend to love Rapace, but this, not too unlike Soderbergh's SIDE EFFECTS, seems more interested in screwing us around, jerking the rug out from under us and stringing us along than supplying any sort of compelling narrative. Nothing really interesting or cool happens until around the last ten minutes. This is the kind of movie I'd have rented as a teenager with the intent to fast-forward to the "good parts." Only there ain't no good parts.

This plays around trickily with generic conventions in order to throw the viewer off kilter, and perhaps in the name of some virtue to do with drawing audience attention to the mechanics behind the theatrics, but ultimately this movie is still just the kind of junk about which I find it impossible to care. The highlight was the ballet section: Polina Semionova was beautifully controlled and expressive.

super bad, never see it, horror kind of, bad for children

Saw this at the TIFF premiere at the beautiful Winter Garden theater. Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace must've had a blast playing these characters. A cruel game of one-upmanship between coworkers goes completely off the rails, resulting in a wildly engaging climax - complete with a crazy operatic score. Definitely a few too many twists and turns at the end, to the point where De Palma felt like he was spoofing himself. Nonetheless a fun movie.

So, apparently the corpse of Brian De Palma is still directing movies...

43.500

It gets pretty stupid at times, like the kissing routine and the finale. Feels like a relic from 80ies. Yet it's competently shot, straightforward (where twists are actually nontwists and only expected) and watchable if you're up for a thriller.

Part self-homage, part whodunit piece by a filmmaker who seems completely absorbed by how disposable image looks today. That's why, despite the tons of dream sequences that never quite leave us solid answers, Passion should be filed next to Road to Nowhere and Holy Motors as another cinematic essay about an era in which there is an image recorded for every moment of life -- through cellphones, surveillance cams, POVs footage, big and small screens --, but few worthy of our affection.

The original French movie wasn't great, just curious, interesting. The aspect that made me consider it that way is lost here, because De Palma made the story cheaper. Some say he tries to do a Hitchcock film, but he would have never done this, he would have made the French one better and unlike De Palma that wouldn't have been turning it into an awful and cheap whodunit (specially when the French one never meant that). The rest, nice cinematography, not good enough acting (director doesn't help)

watched: 2014, 2020

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filmekimi 2012 & Passion, Palma'nin David Lynch'i fena halde animsatan twist & trickleriyle anlattigi 'garip' bir film. Lakin begenemedim. Film, kapitalist sistemde narsistlesen & neticesinde canavarlasan bireyin arzularni tatmin etmek icin cikis yolu arama cabasni anlatiyor. Passion, 21. yy.'da, gökdelenlerde yaşayan insanların arzularının tamahkârlığına dair bir iş. Başarısız zira gereksiz kırılma noktaları var.

De Palma, gözünü başarı hırsı bürümüş kadınların içine düştükleri açmazları, yer yer gülünç olmayı göze alarak, tarife bir miktar B filmi baharatı katarak anlatıyor. Bence gayet iyi de yapıyor.

watchable

A throwback to older De Palmas like Blow Out, Dressed to Kill and Body Double, but with a slicker, digital-age style, Passion impressed me with how grabbing and tense it is despite being so blatantly ridiculous from start to finish. Rapace's performance is excellent, the editing is full of chutzpah, and the music contributes greatly.

Sleazy second rate thriller given the usual De Palma burnish; camerawork, acting rapport between the leading ladies and music keep this somewhat satisfying for what it is. Probably for fans only. Plus: Has one of his best uses of split-screen.

It's not without some entertainment value, but this plays more like a parody of a De Palma film than a serious attempt. McAdams channels an adult version of Regina George. Unfortunately, the plot is ludicrous and often doesn't quite make sense, and there are about three or four major plot twists too many and two or three "it was just a dream!" wake-up shots too many.

Hell yeah!

Pretty lame and crummy also maybe it was a dream ... or was it?

The first third is a bit light for my liking (and even plainly shot at times), but everything from the ballet scene on is classic De Palma. This should've been received better. It's at least on par with Femme Fatale.