Synopsis
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
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Cast
- Rebecca RomijnLaure Ash / Lily Watts
- Antonio BanderasNicolas Bardo
- Peter CoyoteWatts
- Ériq EbouaneyBlack Tie
- Édouard MontouteRacine
- Rie RasmussenVeronica
- Thierry FrémontSerra
- Gregg HenryShiff
- Fiona CurzonStanfield Phillips
- Daniel MilgramPierre / Bartender
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
The story, to the extent that it is comprehensible, is pretentious and banal, closer to "Vanilla Sky" than "Notorious." But Mr. De Palma proves that, in the absence of insight or ideas, some amazing things are possible. It is possible, for instance, to be entranced by a movie without believing it for a second. - 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's hard to call it thrilling -- these aren't characters you actually care about and De Palma isn't as concerned with building tension as playing visual games -- but it sure sparkles. - 70
Variety
An extravagant suspense cocktail of wacky and lascivious ingredients that goes down fine. - 63
New York Daily News
Sexy, witty, energetic and gorgeous, but it is as stripped of the human element (in some of its production design, as well) as a minimalist Calvin Klein store. - 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Femme Fatale is glossy, glamorous cinema as collage. Maybe all the pieces of a truly good film noir are here, but the filmmaker has opted simply to toss them into the air and let them fall where they may. - 63
Chicago Tribune
The film is De Palma's tribute to film noir, to Paris and to the cinema itself. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Even if it's accepted simply as glitter-sprayed trash, sophomorically plotted and incompetently acted, Femme Fatale is a uniquely De Palma kind of effluence, an exercise in auteur self-parody. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Sexy and passably entertaining, with a plot that's too clever by half.
