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The depictions of women in film noir come in a range of archetypes and stock characters, including the alluring femme fatale. 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 .
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The Revenge of the Woman in Black (French: La vengeance de la femme en noir) is a Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Roger Cantin and released in 1997. [1] A sequel to his 1991 film Four Stiffs and a Trombone (L'assassin jouait du trombone), the film revisits Augustin Marleau (Germain Houde), now a successful comedian who is framed for murder by his manager Édouard Elkin (Marc Labrèche).
Woman with Black Glove (French: Femme au gant noir, or Femme Assise) is a painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes.Painted in 1920, after returning to Paris in the wake of World War I, the paintings highly abstract structure is consistent with style of experimentation that transpired during the second synthetic phase of Cubism, called Crystal Cubism.
Film noir (/ n w ɑːr /; French: [film nwaʁ]) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American film noir.
The Woman in the Window is a 1944 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, and Dan Duryea.It tells the story of a middle-aged psychology professor [2] who murders in self-defense the lover of a young femme fatale he just met while his family is on vacation.
A Woman at Her Window (French: Une femme à sa fenêtre) is a 1976 French drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre, starring Romy Schneider, Philippe Noiret, Victor Lanoux and Umberto Orsini. Based on the 1929 novel Hotel Acropolis by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle , it tells the story of a woman who helps a union leader sought by police in ...
'The Bride Was in Black') is a 1968 French drama thriller film directed by François Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich. It stars Jeanne Moreau , Charles Denner , Alexandra Stewart , Michel Bouquet , Michael Lonsdale , Claude Rich and Jean-Claude Brialy .