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Beware angular beauties stalking the business-class sections of international flights! Sex, money, power and corruption converge in Olivier Assayas's glossy meditation on the dangerous allure of surfaces and the ugliness that lies beneath, which starts out a straightforward tale of industrial espionage and twists itself into a knot of existential angst so tight it makes your head hurt. And that is surely precisely the point. Ambitious, Paris-based Diane de Monx (Connie Nielsen), executive assistant to multinational tycoon Henri-Pierre Volf (Jean-Baptise Malartre), will do anything to climb the ladder of corporate success, including drug her colleague, Karen (Dominiqu...