Femme Fatale
by Brian De Palma
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Actor: Antonio Banderas, Edouard Montoute, Eriq Ebouaney, Peter Coyote, Rebecca RomijnDirector: Brian De Palma
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Thierry Arbogast
Writer: Brian De Palma
Editor: Bill Pankow
Producer: Chris Soldo
Producer: Marina Gefter
Producer: Mark Lombardo
Producer: Tarak Ben Ammar
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: 24461
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Femme Fatale is a contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) suddenly exposed to the world -- and her enemies -- by a voyeuristic photographer (Antonio Banderas) who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge.Running Time: 115 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R Age: 085392446124 UPC: 085392446124 Manufac
Movie Reviews of Femme Fatale
Movie Review: DePalma's 'Danger Kitty'! ;o)
Summary: 5 Stars
DePalma has a style all his own, no doubt, especially when he writes and directs a film; and this one has that in spades. It's flourished with brilliance and stunning beauty throughout the entire film. Superb in every aspect of the word, this is a surreal experience one has to see to believe, and then see again.
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos gives a top-notch 'Grace Kelly' performance as Laure, a bad girl, rotten to the heart, who is involved in a jewelry heist at Cannes, then an identity switch and personal intrique. She is also Lily, a woman who has lost her husband and child in an accident, and is suicidal with grief. Also in the film is Gregg Henry, who has worked with DePalma in "Scarface", "Body Double", and recently in "The Black Dahlia"; and Peter Coyote as a Politico who Laure/Lily seduces and manipulates into marriage. Antonio Banderas shines as Nicholas Bardos, a photographer, a'photog', 'paparazi scum', who takes a crucial photograph, maybe just one photo too many.?.?. He gets swept up in a world of mystery and intrigue that takes him on a journey like a labrynth maze, full of mystery.
Watch for him during a great scene with him and Laure/Lily in a hotel room, where he convincingly tells her the outcome of her character and the film; but only if you can really grasp what's going on. Plus, there are scads of hilarity in that scene, and scattered throughout the entire film. 'Smart guys' like him, well, we all know what happens to them.?.?.?...
Very exotic and erotic, hypnotizing and spellbinding, romantic and twisted, this is a film that lays all of its clues right in front of you the entire time, making it all the more fun to watch over and over. The scenes with water, even an Evian bottle, are especially fun and brillian hidden gems. Don't let yourself ever get comfortable, for everytime you think you know where you are in this, DePalma spins you around like a carousel, and puts you in a whole new perspective. Awesome. Very satiric as well.
This is a brilliant masterpiece from a brilliant master filmmaker. Classic in every right, a great throw back to awesome cinema like the films of Hitchcock, Wilder, Welles. Godard, Antonioni, Polanski, and especially Lynch. And a throwback to DePalma's early erotic/political/psychological thrillers like "Dressed To Kill", "Body Double", "Blow Out", and "Raising Cain". The film opens with a clip from "Double Indemnity" playing as Laure lays watching silently, showing from the outset that you are not only about to see a noirish story, nor just a film about a 'bad girl', but also an out-and-out celebration of the art/craft of filmmaking itself.
David Lynch was gonna play himself in the opening of the film as the director screening his film at Cannes, but he fell ill and had to back out, so DePalma got another top name director to do it...Cool!
Like a dream within a dream within a dream, so toxic and compelling this is...Ask yourself: Would you change your destiny if you could see the future and had the chance? It's really that simple a plot when it all breaks down.
The end result has split audiences down the middle, but for all you film buffs out there that love resolutions that satisfy the appetite, well, look no further. Get it? Well, read it again...
Thank you! ;o)
Summary of Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale is a contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) suddenly exposed to the world -- and her enemies -- by a voyeuristic photographer (Antonio Banderas) who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge.The sheer pleasure of watching movies is celebrated in Brian De Palma's dazzling Femme Fatale. Working from his own intricate screenplay, De Palma indulges all of his trademark obsessions, upping the ante on Hitchcock (again) with a Vertigo-like plot that begins with an audacious heist at the Cannes film festival (another sexy, violent tour de force for De Palma). From there, the stunning thief Laure (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) assumes a new identity, marries a U.S. senator (Peter Coyote), and returns to Paris where a tenacious paparazzo (Antonio Banderas) becomes a patsy in her multilayered scheme. De Palma's weaving a web of nonsense, but his plotting is so exuberantly absurd--and his frame so full of visual clues and relevant detail--that Femme Fatale becomes a joyous thrill ride at first encounter, and a crazily logical (and grandly rewarding) movie on subsequent viewings. In her best role to date, Romijn-Stamos is everything you'd want a femme fatale to be, in a thriller that constantly challenges you to question what you're seeing. --Jeff Shannon
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