Femme Fatale | | Cast : | Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote | | Director : | Brian De Palma | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | November 06, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 05, 2005 | | Summary | A Hitchcock-esque Thriller | Content
 | Director Brian De Palma has taken the best of Alfred Hitchcock's attributes and molded them into this sexy and provocative thriller.
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos stars as Laure, a jewel thief who arranges a sexy tryst at the Cannes Film Festival with a beautiful woman who just happens to be wearing a serpent-shaped bra. Soon, Laure and the sexy woman are making out in a bathroom stall while her cohorts are busy swapping the real bra for a fake one. However, Laure has her own trick up her sleeve.
As the movie progresses, Laure assumes a new identity, marries U.S. Senator Bruce Watts (Peter Coyote), and eventually returns to Paris, where tabloid photographer Nicholas Bardo (Antonio Banderas) becomes part of a much larger picture. However, everything turns out to be just a dream. What will really happen in the end?
Overall, I thought this was a good film. I thought that Rebecca R-S and Antonio Banderas did good jobs with their roles, but the plot was difficult for me to follow at times. I also didn't care for the subtitles, and the split screens made the viewing somewhat difficult at times. Still, I did enjoy the film, and I highly recommend it. People who enjoy good plot twists and turns will definitely enjoy this movie, but be sure to watch very closely to keep up with the plot. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 15, 2005 | | Summary | Viewer beware!! | Content
| "Femme Fatale" is definitely the appropriate title for this movie! Be aware before you view that the film is essentially soft-core porn. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 04, 2005 | | Summary | DePalma Overdoes the Hitchcockiana.... | Content
| ....and we get twisted and like in Body Double you can tell when he's just rolling the cameras to see where it leads. It becomes dull and uneven and drawn out afterwhile. He should have instructed his editors to cut about three minutes at least from the set up scenes. In comparison, Hitchcock's mood and pacing was more interesting because it was not rambling (although some scenes did take their time). If nothing else this would make youwant to see DePalma's Body Double of Dressed to Kill or Hitch's Vertigo to compare with. Big ups to Banderas and Romijan-Stamos for their character depictions, however. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 27, 2004 | | Summary | De Palma never had it..... | Content
| from the begining this man's career as a film maker has been a joke. All of his movies are badly scripted and full of one dimsensional people who no one can like at all. There is nothing in this movie except more nonsense that this joke of a film maker has done all his life. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 08, 2004 | | Summary | DE PALMA DOES DALLAS | Content
| *NOTE: ONCE YOU'VE SEEN THE FILM YOU'LL UNDERSTAND THE TITLE*
Brian dePalma once again employs the directorial styles of other great directors, again most notably the late Alfred Hitchcock. His long walk/chase segues; his cool blonde who doesn't speak for quite a while; the unlucky gent who finds himself embroiled in a rather complicated plot; deceptive identities; murders; suicide; theft, and a torrid lesbian scene. You'll probably be quite shocked at the film's resolution and its subsequent aftermath, so DePalma uses trickery to its most unusual heights, sort of.
This is probably Rebecca Romijin Stamos' best performance to date: she's sly, seductive, brutally frank, and reminiscent of such Hitchcock ladies as Kim Novak and Tippi Hedren. Antonio Banderas is not as impressive; he seems uninvolved and never really aware of his situation. Peter Coyote and Gregg Henry are wasted in minor supporting roles.
DePalma's visual style and split screen antics are effective as usual and the musical score is very good. One of his least popular films, FEMME FATALE still manages to offer some seductive suspense and is worth a look. |
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