Brian De Palma - Femme Fatale (2002)-Cinema of the World

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Brian De Palma - Femme Fatale (2002)

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"Jonathan Rosenbaum" wrote:

By my count, Femme Fatale is Brian De Palma's 26th feature, and as I watched it the first time two months ago I found myself capitulating to its inspired formalist madness -- something I've resisted in his films for the past 30-odd years. De Palma's latest isn't so much an improvement on his earlier work as a grand synthesis of it -- as if he set out to combine every previous thriller he'd made in one hyperbolically frothy cocktail. So we get split-screen framing; bad girls; sweetie-pie male suckers; verbal and physical abuse; lots of blood; a melodramatic story stretched out over many years; slow-motion, lyrically rendered catastrophes; noirish lighting schemes favoring venetian blinds; plot twists; scrambled and recomposed plot mosaics; obsessional repetitions of sound and image; pastiches of familiar musical pieces (in this case Ravel and Satie); nearly constant camera movements; and ceiling-height camera angles. Best of all, we often get several of these things simultaneously. (One of the few De Palma movies for which he takes sole script credit, Femme Fatale is nothing if not personal.)