I found the plot a bit unrealistic. The main character does extreme things, but the reason for acting that way does not match what actually happened to her, unless you are crazy. The acting in the office environment was not the best either, talking about reports and files in a non-realistic way. However, although you can see what is going to happen early on, I found that I wanted to stick to the end to see how it all works out. There is a little bit of a twist at the very end as well, but because of many close-ups leading up to that, you sort of could see that coming too. The end is unsettling in a way, but I guess in the end the main character pays for her deeds as well. In the end the truth will come out. All in all, I thought it was engaging till the end. And that is also something to look for in a film.

Though ratings and views of this title are quite low on IMDb but as a fan of French thrillers I thought to give it a try and it lived up to my expectations. As usual another underrated and much ignored suspense thriller on IMDb. My intuition leads me to the fact that mostly suspense thrillers are rated by comedy lovers on IMDb which result in low ratings. Because of this quite good movies get ignored.Plot of this movie is very tricky. A simple situation is turned into complex one with the passage of time. I am quite satisfied with its pace and doesn't bored me at all.Acting from both leads is fantastically good. Both are well chosen for their respective roles and actresses also have done justice with it. Director is good as well.Baseline is that "Don't relay on ratings and see it yourself ". It will turned out to be 90 odds minutes spent well.

For the first couple of reels this is little more than Mike Nichol's 'Working Girl' with a French accent then Corneau subtly changes gear and ups the ante. To be honest I would have wished Corneau a better swansong than this. The film he made immediately prior to this - a genuine remake of Melville's Le Deuxieme Soufflé - was flawed and one longed for him to get back to the great days personified by Police Python 357. I've always had an aversion to Ludo Sagnier just as she long had an aversion to working with her clothes on (ironically, this time around she even coyly pulls a sheet around her to get out of bed) the truth of the matter is she's just that that much of an actress naked or fully clothed. No matter, Kristin Scott Thomas is well up to the task of carrying Sagnier - and most everyone else too, if anybody asks you. It's pleasant enough though the twists are not so much turns of the screw as rotations of a thumb-tack. Good for one viewing.

The writer/director wastes the time of everyone involved in this film, and everyone who mistakenly watches it. I know I indicated spoilers lurk within this review, but I'll try to avoid the more obvious ones.In real life, we know that everyone is just about capable of everything. A trivial incident can send one person into a rage. In our films, however, we want more plausibility. We are able to sense when a character is not psychologically true.If we accept that our protagonist is an intelligent, capable businesswoman, we must be provided with extremely good reasons for that character to go off the rails.The film-makers are decidedly cynical when they inject quasi-Lesbianism for box-office returns. They should instead have tried reading 'Business for Dummies' because it appears they know next to nothing about business life. (A smart person would know that to extensively humiliate a younger colleague in public, someone she herself had been mentoring, would reflect negatively on herself.)I hope the actresses involved get some decent material to work with. Soon.