First Look: ‘Passion’ Trailer

Brian De Palma’s erotic thriller Passion is set to screen at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, and the Toronto festival’s just unveiled this trailer in advance of the screenings. De Palma adapted the film from the 2010 French film, Love Crime, and directs.

Passion stars Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth, and Paul Anderson.

The Plot [Courtesy of the Venice Film Festival]:

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 protégée 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…