Femme Fatale
2002
Con artist Laure Ash pulls off a diamond robbery during the Cannes film festival. After double-crossing her associates she flees to Paris where she assumes another identity. Seven years on she resurfaces as the wife of the American ambassador to France where she is photographed by a Spanish photographer, Nicolas. This sets off .. Read more
| Starring | Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney |
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| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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Femme Fatale
Con artist Laure Ash pulls off a diamond robbery during the Cannes film festival. After double-crossing her associates she flees to Paris where she assumes another identity. Seven years on she resurfaces as the wife of the American ambassador to France where she is photographed by a Spanish photographer, Nicolas. This sets off a chain of events in which she protects her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas - but she still has her former partners-in-crime to deal with...
| Starring | Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney, Gregg Henry |
|---|---|
| Director | Brian De Palma |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: not available Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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One of suspense stylist Brian De Palma's best over-the-top doodles on the B-movie film noir form, this cool, erotically charged déjà-vu Euro-thriller is a sumptuously elegant treat from its wordless lesbian encounter beginning at the Cannes Film Festival to its cleverly twisted end. Can reclusive French Ambassador's wife Rebecca Romijn-Stamos hide her former identity as a jewel thief when secret snaps taken by paparazzi photographer Antonio Banderas alert her former partners in crime into reclaiming stolen diamonds? Complete with a mind-bending last-act shift in reality that many will find a complete cheat, De Palma's audaciously seductive deception is a bold and imaginative exercise in film-making craft and devious sleight-of-hand audience manipulation, laced with his usual tongue-in-chic trademarks. And Romijn-Stamos makes a perfect, icy, duplicitous blonde heroine in the best Hitchcock tradition.
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16 out of 18 people found this review helpful
De Palmad
Welcome to the parallel universe of the great Brian De Palma.This is
De Palma it his unique best in the mindzone of Dressed to Kill,Obsession, Blow Out and Body Double and definately not Mission
Impossible or Bonfire of the Vanities. It has all the De Palma
trademarks ie. erotica,dream sequences,Hitchcockian twists etc etc. Foremost it is brillantly filmed and its hypnotic quaiities will thrill you
to the ' De Palmaian ' ending. Welcome back to the master. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Good thriller with the delightful Rebecca Romijn-Stamos being both decorative and
interesting as a character. I liked the way the plot played with time. -
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De Palma’s Way
- 10 Mar 2008
Brian De Palma is in hot water. Again. For a director who often seems more interested in form than content and who has devoted the bulk of his career to making mainstream entertainment for the Hollywood studios, it's surprising how regularly he upsets people. Even his fans have a love-hate relationship with this prodigiously gifted but perverse and erratic talent. Feminists picketed Dressed to Kill and Cuban refugees weren't flattered by Scarface either. But that's nothing on the US reaction... Read more
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