
The thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by an ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marr... (Full plot summary below)
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The thief Laurie Ash steals the expensive diamond jewel called 'Eye of the Serpent' in an audacious heist during an exhibition in Cannes 2001 Festival. She double-crosses her partners and is mistakenly taken as Lily, a woman who lost her husband and son in an accident and is missing since then, by an ordinary family. One day, while having bath in Lily's bathtub, Lily comes back home and commits suicide. Laurie assumes definitely Lily's identity, goes to America where she marries a rich man, who becomes the Ambassador of USA in France. When Laurie returns to France, her past haunts her.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is pure filmmaking, elegant and slippery. I haven't had as much fun second-guessing a movie since "Mulholland Drive." |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanPerhaps more than any film he's made up to this point, [it] is DePalma's most humanistic defense of his body of work, but only a director with his unique obsessions and talents could make a statement of humanism that's so provocative, sexy, and exciting. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottFar more absorbing and tantalizing than most of the plodding, overworked thrillers the studios churn out these days. |
| Planet Sick-BoyJon PopickProbably an example of style over substance, but that's okay when something is this pleasing to the eye. |
| Film Journal InternationalKevin LallyDe Palma, who wrote the screenplay, doesn't seem to care here about basics like non-cardboard characters, credible plotting or giggle-free dialogue. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid Nusair...chock full of the various camera tricks that made [De Palma] famous more than two decades ago, from slow-motion sequences to uninterrupted long takes. |
| L.A. WeeklyJohn PowersI haven't admired a De Palma film since "Carrie," or even enjoyed one since "Scarface," so it must mean something that Femme Fatale gave me one of the best times at the movies I've had this year. |
| Q Network Film DeskJames Kendricka tour de force of giddy-enthralling cinematic trashiness. |
| Salon.comCharles TaylorIn his dazzling and luxuriant new thriller Femme Fatale, De Palma turns trash into chic. It's a sexy, violent, glamorous, sinfully funny movie with a surface as hard and brilliant as diamonds. |
| Los Angeles TimesManohla DargisHere, the message is the moviemaking and the unparalleled joy you get from a film that can carry you off so completely, making you forget about everything save for the beautiful lies in front of you. |