2002 · thriller · erotic · noir
Femme Fatale
Directed by Brian De Palma1h 54m2002
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.
Our read: Femme Fatale (2002) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · erotic · noir entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, breathless, measured thriller / erotic, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
Watching Femme Fatale tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Femme Fatale feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want glossy De Palma noir with erotic set-pieces and structural games.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike voyeuristic sex scenes or puzzle-box thrillers tonight.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Femme Fatale, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →