French filmmaker Alain Corneau (Le Deuxième souffle) will peer into the nastier aspects of being a career woman. Corneau began filming Une Femme Parfaite (eng. translation: A Perfect Woman) this week with Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier trading blows in the offices of a powerful multinational co. Humiliation and revenge unfold.
Co-written by Corneau and Natalie Carter (wrote Jean-Paul Salomé’s The Chameleon), the film centres on two women who work for the French subsidiary of a large US multinational. Isabelle (Sagnier) works under Christine (Scott Thomas) and while they appear similar and compatible, they are very different. They almost seem like lovers, but Christine manipulates Isabelle and steals her brilliant ideas, turning them to her own advantage. A ruthless battle gradually breaks out between them. Christine exploits her position of authority and becomes cruel. Publicly humiliated and almost crushed, Isabelle prepares to take revenge. Imaginative and calculating, she turns into a “perfect” murderer, adopting strange behaviour, blaming herself, devouring drugs, wandering aimlessly in the rain, going to see the same film twice, etc. In reality, she weaves the web of her murderous plot and an irrefutable way to emerge completely innocent.
Produced by Saïd Ben Saïd, Cineuropa.org reports that shoot will take place almost entirely in the Paris area until mid November and will be lensed by Yves Angelo (he also worked on Deuxième souffle.
