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Femme Fatale is a 2002 erotic thriller film [2] [3] written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Antonio Banderas and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. [4] Upon its release, Femme Fatale received mixed reviews from film critics and became a box office flop.
Femmes fatales were standard fare in hardboiled crime stories in 1930s pulp fiction.. A femme fatale (/ ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t æ l,-ˈ t ɑː l / FEM fə-TA(H)L, French: [fam fatal]; lit. ' fatal woman '), sometimes called a maneater, [1] Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising ...
Although Rasmussen plays Frenchwomen in her two major acting roles (Femme Fatale [15] and Angel-A), she did not speak French. Feeling the pressure of acting in a foreign language, she spent 3½ months learning French for the film. Many French viewers were surprised to discover Rasmussen hadn't been speaking the language for years. [14]
A femme fatale (/ ˌ f æ m f ə ˈ t ɑː l / or / ˌ f ɛ m f ə ˈ t ɑː l /; French: [fam fatal], literally "lethal woman"), is a prevalent and indicating theme to the style of film noir. The portrayal of women in film noir, and more specifically the term “femme fatale”, has been a topic of intrigue and fascination for decades. The ...
Samantha Lindop classifies Merteuil as a fille fatale (a young femme fatale) and compares her to Adrian Forrester (Alicia Silverstone) in The Crush. [5] Richard Burt suggests that Kathryn is "punished for being beautiful and smart" in that she "can't keep guys from dumping her for stupider girls".
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The Unfaithful Wife (French: La Femme infidèle) is a 1969 French–Italian crime drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Bouquet. [1] The story follows a businessman who discovers his wife has been unfaithful.
La Femme Nikita, [a] also called Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-language action thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. The film stars Anne Parillaud as the title character, a criminal who is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering policemen during an armed pharmacy robbery. Her government handlers fake her ...