Femme Fatale

Cinematic cool incarnated. I'm with JJJames: People need to recognize how good this really is. How do you make a solid modern film noir with Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas? Don't think anyone but De Palma could have pulled this off.

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This one's pure style and love for the noir. The extended opening sequence is quite a beauty -the film goes downhill from there, becoming a puzzle of interlocking coincidences that adds up to nothing. Recommended for superficial fun -from Romijn to the camera angles it's all eye candy.

Really sharp, and vastly underrated. It's indicative of De Palma's mastery of the medium that I didn't notice I had the subtitles turned off until 30 minutes in. Actually, someone should get him to make a silent film, that would be amazing.

Somehow de Palma manages to keep surprising me with each film of his I watch. This is some major work from a master of the medium, ridiculously enjoyable in every sense and way.

Plenty of camera games, narrative tricks, generic subversions and cinematic references, and a lot of self-conscious exploration of the artifices and duplicities of art, photography and cinema, but none of that seemed to this viewer to take the film much beyond the trashy level at which this filmmaker seems to prefer to operate.

Femme Fatale is a collage of De Palma's obsessions, both stylistic and thematic, which, when placed next to each other reveal a big picture. De Palma has made a pastiche of his career as a pastiche filmmaker, and Femme Fatale is about creating something new out of the hoary. It's simultaneously an exciting, sexy thriller and rebuke of the ridiculousness and unreality of thrillers. It is exceedingly difficult to have one's cake and eat it too, but I think this is an example of just that.

So, the irony is that this film premiered out of competition in Cannes, has the first scene set in the festival and ended up being a better film than every title in competition. Femme Fatale is simply the horniest, dreamiest and most visually striking film of the 2000s, shot to be seen almost as a silent movie, in which every image is designed to wonder, frighten and seduce. A forgotten masterpiece.

Needed way more lesbian toilet scenes. Everything else was embarassing and stupid. All the high scores baffle me.

All style, completely cool.

A very perplexing movie by Brain de Palma. Besides Rebecca Romjin-Stamos very beatiful in Femma Fatale!

This is one big "fuck you" from Brian de Palma to his fans. And I don't mean that as a criticism, I was entertained.

from one of the best de palma

Make erotic thrillers as you please, but the label being used only to hide a weak plot and painful acting leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The melodramatic shots and slow motions and effects are so cheesy at times it seem straight out of some cheap drama from the '80s. Using boobs as a distraction is kind of less smart than the movie tries to be. I felt face blind watching it as I could not tell the women apart, and they kept having makeovers

hayal meyal tv'de izlediğimi hatırladığım, ve tek olayının hafif erotizm olduğunu sandığım bir filmdi. yıllar sonra de palma'ya ayrı bir merak sarıp izleyince fark ettim ki işin o kısmı kendisinin de şikayetçi olduğu pazarlama saçmalıklarıymış. eğlencelik film denilen şeyi tamamen soyuyor ve mekaniği apaçık ortada bırakıyor de palma. başyapıt olmasa da sahip olduğu kötü ün çok yersiz olduğundan insanın daha da övesi geliyor, orası ayrı.

Reminiscent of 70s DePalma, it's kinda weird and the logic is strained, but it's got a captivating atmosphere and makes for a fun ride.

This is De Palma's cinematic language in full display, a ballsy, sexy thriller heavy on both style and satire, directed with the care of a master. Plus, Rebecca Romijn is excellent in it and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Underrated well made De Palma flick. I liked Romijn's performance.

Sexy cinematography.

A rather campy TV-movie. Fun, but silly.

I may be overrating this, but I found it not only visually stunning and sexy, but also witty and surprising.

one of depalma's best

De Palma lets all his obsessions hang out in this erotic thriller. The story is so-so, but the deliver is stylish and cool.

It's hard to say why, but, I can roll with this. De Palma's adherence to a doctrine of pulp and sleaze makes him appear an apologist for the kitschier tendencies of a genre that has many detractors, but I think his emphasis on style leads to more an aesthetic definition of his works. The emptiness that faces us is real after all, which does not redeem any and all terrible art, but is a fair talking point.

Enjoyed this homage to Hitchcock very much. Recommended.

WTF was that movie about?!

de palma's platonic form, ddoouubblliinngg down on all that obsessive hallucinatory voyeuristic endlessly refracting movie-ness and de palma-ness with a fuck-you smirk directed toward the establishment and all the other bullshit it cares about. carry on getting hustled by the palais while what you really want to see is happening in the bathroom. his SHOWGIRLS in a way, every negative review being a variation on "i wish this was more diluted". all my BDP ratings will rise over time i'd imagine.

Good

Star Rating: ★★★★★

58.000

So what's wrong with it: it's incoherent with numerous logical inconsistencies, bad acting, bad writing/directing, horrible cinematography (zooms, extreme close-ups, split-screen). Some beautiful women (lesbians) topless is the only redeeming feature. So bad it's extremely amusing.

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watched: 2013, 2023

Nothing is really that fantastic about the movie, it seemed to be more known and reveled because of the girl-on-girl kissing and "sex" scenes.

Not 0 becouse there is some petting between two hot females.

"He superimposes her face over that of the film's many women, at once reinforcing the nature of the character's split self and the overall dreamlike momentum of the narrative." - Ed Gonzalez

Nearly seems like an 80s or at best, early 90s movie.

From its "Fuck Billy Wilder" opening to its Divinely illuminated close, Femme Fatale may be Brian De Palma's greatest film.

One of the best intros ever.

This movie is quasi-decent on it's own, but it's opening scene is stellar. Watch the director's commentary for insight into it.

good movie

A great movie from brilliant director Brian De Palma. I have not seen De Palmas recent movies. The last one, what i saw, was Mission: Impossible, what turned out to be somewhat cult movie. Pretty sure that won't happen with Femme Fatale. There is still plenty of erotic, mindblowing and surprising scenes.

The opening scene makes this movie worth watching.

i don't know why --of course because of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos :)-- but i like this film

rewatch

Predictable erotic thriller, untill act III... then woah, when did this awesome movie start?!

Some really hot naked chicks, but! This film has the cheapest most cliche story-structure which cheats the audience out of anything likable in the film. And there really isn't that much all that likable to start out with.

I dunno, on the one hand the ending made me want to kill someone, but on the hand this featured cinema's greatest striptease scene. I really wish De Palma played this one straight.

depalma's depalmaness seemed less elegant than usual in this one. at first. towards the end it got kind of annoying how the character's actions alternated from schemingly smart to a little heated and dumb, maybe that was just a matter of saving screen time. still, the ending made it all awesome again. it's so amazing to see the kind of ballsy storytelling moves and tools depalma employs in action. the expectations that guy has towards his audience as well as the confidence he has in it...man.

Stylish but stupid.

Um Brian De Palma razoável, talvez um pouco confuso

Seemingly coming straight out of 1982, De Palma delivers a ludicrous neo-noir and it is glorious. Look, there are probably a dozen plot holes and a plot device that should put him in literal jail, but ride is satisfying. Over the top performances, De Palma camera flourishes, and cinema references galore. A sleazy good time.

If your suspension of disbelief starts to crumble while watching this that doesn't mean you should abandon the film. Hanging in might make it worth your while. At the very least, even if you don't end up liking the film, I think De Palma does some things I've never seen in a thriller before.