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Article: De Palma at his best in `Femme Fatale'
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- Daily Breeze
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- November 8, 2002
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Sly as a snake, Brian De Palma's "Femme Fatale" is a sexy thriller
that coils back on itself in seductive deception. This is pure
filmmaking, elegant and slippery.
I haven't had as much fun second-guessing a movie since"Mulholland
Drive." Consider such clues as the overflowingaquarium, the shirt
still stained with blood after many days, the subtitles for dialogue
that is not spoken, the story that begins in 2001 and then boldly
announces: "Seven years later."
The movie opens with a $10 million diamond theft, with a
difference: The diamonds adorn the body of a supermodel attending a
premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, andthey are stolen with erotic
audacity as the model is seduced in a ...