Femme Fatale (2002 film)

Infobox Film
name = Femme Fatale


caption = Original French-language poster
director = Brian De Palma
writer = Brian De Palma
starring = Rebecca Romijn
Antonio Banderas
Peter Coyote
Rie Rasmussen
Eva Darlan
producer = Marina Gefter
cinematography = Thierry Arbogast
distributor = Warner Bros.
budget = ~ US$35,000,000
released = 6 November 2002 (USA)
runtime = 114 min
language = English, French
imdb_id = 0280665
amg_id = 1:263957

"Femme Fatale" is a 2002 film directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Rebecca Romijn as the femme fatale and Antonio Banderas.

Plot

In the film, Laure Ash (Romijn) participates in a diamond heist in Cannes, double-crosses her accomplices and escapes to Paris, where she stumbles across her own doppelgänger (naturally portrayed by Romijn) who commits suicide, leaving Laure the opportunity to take her identity and leave the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces in Paris as the wife of the new American ambassador to France (Peter Coyote). At this point Spanish photographer Nicolas Bardo (Banderas) takes her picture, prompting Laure to manipulate Bardo in order to conceal her former identity and evade her ex-accomplices who are still after the stolen diamonds. A twist near the end accentuates the artificial nature of the story and brings many familiar motifs of De Palma's into play.

Box office

The film was a critical and box office bomb, taking in less than half of its production costs worldwide.

The film received mostly negative reviews. It was defended by several high profile critics, however, notably Roger Ebert, who called it one of DePalma's best films.

External links

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*metacritic film|id=femmefatale|title=Femme Fatale
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