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Mood:
- StylizedSuspensefulSexySexualMind Bending
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Plot:
- Criminal HeroesFemme FataleHidden IdentityCons and ScamsCrimesDeadlyDishonestyPower Relations more...
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Genres:
- CrimeThriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- EuropeFranceParis
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Style:
- Twists and Turns
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- NuditySexual Content
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Femme Fatale, 2002
English, French
France
Profile of Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale can be described as sexy, stylized, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around a femme fatale, hidden identities, and cons and scams. The main genres are thriller and crime. In terms of style, Femme Fatale involves twists and turns. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It is located in Paris. Femme Fatale takes place in contemporary times. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that it involves nudity and sexual content.
Summary of Femme Fatale
Director Brian De Palma returns to familiar terrain with FEMME FATALE, a loopy, sexy thriller that plays like a "greatest hits" of the controversial director's tics, tricks, and obsessions. Here the story follows a beautiful seductress (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos) who betrays her cohorts during an elaborate diamond heist at the Cannes Film Festival, then disappears to America under the stolen identity of a dead French girl to whom she bears an uncanny resemblance. Seven years later she returns to Paris when her American husband (Peter Coyote) accepts a position as French ambassador. That's when Antonio Banderas, as a goofy photographer, enters the picture and becomes her lover and dupe in another elaborate scheme. Along the way there's steamy lesbianism, misogynistic violence, split-screens, double-crosses, time loops, VERTIGO-style stalking, a hot striptease, and plenty of dark comedy and sly homage to other films, all in the classic De Palma tradition. His fans should be thrilled, as this harkens back to the director's DRESSED TO KILL, BLOW OUT, and BODY DOUBLE days. Novices should prepare to throw credibility to the wind and just enjoy the stylistic bravado, the twists and turns, and the ravishing Stamos--who backs up her beauty with a captivating, enigmatic performance.
Details
| Language: | English, French |
| Country: | France |
| Release date: | 4 November 2002 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
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as Nicolas Bardo
as Laure / Lily
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- by: Manohla Dargis
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