Femme Fatale

I didn't even hit up the theater or rent it; I just caught it on DivX, but honestly, I’m so glad I did just for that hilarious bit where Anthony plays a gay Mexican guy! 😁 Everything else was pretty decent.

Richard Hernandez13 said:Are you studying directing?

I actually thought "Femme Fatale" would appeal more to people who truly understand cinematic language—rather than just the casual crowd...

In my opinion, this is the finest work Brian De Palma has delivered since "Moonstruck"—and it’s fascinating that he actually co-wrote the script, too. It’s honestly a tragedy that a talent of his caliber has to scrape by with projects like "Mission: Impossible" or "Mission to Mars" (seriously, whenever his survival was on the line, the poor guy ended up stuck in some 'mission')...

Is it really possible that I'm the only one on this forum who actually likes "Femme Fatale"?

This is truly a cinematic testament from Brian De Palma. We certainly hope he keeps filming—but this movie is packed with self-references to his entire body of work. Even nods to "Mission: Impossible"...
Sergei Eisenstein would be absolutely thrilled to see his successor.
The film stands as a monument to cinema itself as an art form.
Simply stunning... Raskolnikov...
The sheer dominance of music and editing over dialogue—Brian De Palma has proven here that he alone is capable of being the new Alfred Hitchcock...
It could practically serve as a PhD in film editing...
Brian De Palma acts as a narrator without a script...
Between the dreamlike time jumps and that Freudian obsession with clocks—time always hitting 15:35!—you see the whole history of film, from German Expressionism through the works of Russ and Vsevolod Pudovkin and Sergei Eisenstein, all the way to Hitch and Orson Welles...
What makes the film feel so postmodern and contemporary is its multilingualism—especially in a piece where the voice is secondary to the score and the cuts...
Instead of a "message" 🙂, we get a story—and for the first time from De Palma, one with a happy ending...
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Interesting flick. People in this thread are acting all high and mighty about how there wasn't enough skin shown, but honestly, anyone complaining about a lack of eroticism probably would've been perfectly satisfied with some trashy flick titled "Young and Filthy" playing at the local video rental shop last night.

A real conversation about the movie barely even got off the ground. It’s pretty wild how much the film plays with these weird little glitches and odd details—like water leaking out of an aquarium, a shirt stained with blood "seven years after the injury," or those cars... which look exactly like something straight out of 2001... I guess if you believe everything you read online, though I can't be sure since I watched it without subtitles—and let me tell you, the subtitles were basically just "translating" dialogue that the characters didn't even actually say!

I guess this movie felt a little bit dull and empty to me, maybe 🙂

It’s honestly such a shame because this is easily one of the most underrated films of the year.

To really wrap your head around it and get the full experience, you probably need a little bit of background context—kind of like how you'd approach watching Adaptation or Far from Paradise.

I only caught this flick on cable about ten days ago... and honestly, even though I haven't heard a massive amount of hype surrounding it, I thought it was just okay. Certain segments left me scratching my head, and that ending? It was downright bizarre. It feels to me like De Palma leaned a little too heavily on the fact that the film had "European" backing—I believe the producer is based out of France—so he basically gave himself a free pass to cram in all those idiosyncratic little nods and obscure references without giving a single thought to whether an actual audience could follow them.
I suppose one more viewing might help me settle on a definitive opinion regarding the whole thing.

This film stands as a living monument to the art of cinema...
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I don't know.... like.... am I really gonna say it.... aaa.... okay, here goes.... THE MOVIE IS TOTAL TRASH!!!

😁 I didn't get much further than the first five or ten minutes 🙂

The rest was just a total yawn—so I called it quits

Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say the movie was a total disaster! It’s true, it definitely falls way below the mark when you hold it up against the work of De Palma, but look—I went into this one completely blind, knowing absolutely nothing about it. And honestly? The people I saw it with were just tearing it apart left and right, which caught me off guard. Especially toward the end!