Question:
Ahem. *Braces himself* Alright, here we go.
Whoa! Dude, did you see, and then, tadada, all of that, and wham, and he, whoosh, and then kaching, and you ooooh, and then she, aha, and then everything and everyone wheeew, and you go, damn!
Right then. This is Brian de Palma's newest film. If you want to find out more, I suggest you go see it in theaters as soon as it's released.
So, once in a while there comes a movie that makes you realize just how bad the crap you enjoyed actually was, all for the lack of anything better. Femme Fatale is that movie. In the previous months I've watched bad to average forgetable stuff like The Tuxedo, Transporter, I Spy, Truth About Charlie, Ghost Ship, etc, and I've waited for my "next fix" after Ecks vs Sever, hoping Femme Fatale would finally be it. There are some similarities, both of them have Antonio Banderas getting his ass whipped "by a girl" and the great Gregg Henry as a shady character, as well as a beautiful, dominating title female. But similarities, aside from enjoyment, end there.
This is a superbly crafted movie, anything you shake at it, you won't find a plot hole here. The whole film is made up of de Palma's signatures, lots and lots of long takes with an always moving, gliding camera covering intricately detailed scenes, where every bit matters, long split screens, long POVs, all not merely tricks, but a part of, the essense of the movie and its story, driving it forward in a masterfuly edited together film.
If you like that, this is your movie. If you like time gaps, loopbacks full circle, where nothing is what it seems, then this is your movie. If you'd like to see Rebecca Romijn-Stamos be a bad, cunning, decieving, gun toting, cold, manipulative, half-naked lapdancing, vicious b... um girl, then this is your movie.
I had a big smile throughout the whole film out of pure enjoyment, so much so that my cheek muscles got tired of being so happy all the time. Within the first 15 minutes of an awesome opening montage, I knew this is something special, and half-way in, I started thinking in the back of my mind which movie to kick out of my Top 10 to make space for this masterpiece. Yes, some say my taste is bad, but I actually think it's just very intricate, very broad, yet particular in what I like, and following my recommendations, if people don't hate the movie, they love it, there is no middle ground. Femme Fatale is not something to be missed, I promise.
BTW, I wish they used that great European trailer in US, much better at representing the movie than the US version.
Anyway, I'd love to talk about my favorite scenes, of which there are many, how explicit , "ammoral", mischievously great they are, in detail, but that would just spoil it, better go find out for yourself!
******/5
Yes, that's 6 out 5. Time to move another out of Top10 in anticipation of the DVD :thumbs:
To prove my point further, here are a bunch of quotes about the movie:
"An exciting cinematic ravishment
with mind-bending style"
Glen Kenny, Premiere Magazine
"An eye-popping
shriek-at-every-turn
thriller for movie buffs.
Brian De Palma's cleverest,
most entertaining film in years."
Rex Reed, The New York Observer
"Plots within plots,
and payoffs after payoffs."
Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times
"Ingeniously twisty and audaciously
twisted. It's worth seeing twice."
Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
"It's his sexiest, most suspenseful
thriller since 'Body Double'."
Dave Itzkoff, Spin Magazine
"Its sheer visual ingenuity is
as breathtaking as anything
you'll see on screen anywhere.
Gourmet eye candy."
Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star
"A stunningly conducted visual symphony"
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
"It's filled with moments when you think
'De Palma wouldn't dare, would he?'
after which, sure enough, he dares."
Glenn Kenny, Premiere
"When a neo-noir virtuoso such as Brian
De Palma calls a movie Femme Fatale,
you know he means business"
David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
"An extravagant suspense cocktail of
wacky and lascivious ingredients"
Variety
"...a film of relentless sex, spectacular
sequences without dialogue, plots within
plots, and payoffs after payoffs.
De Palma is in form."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"[De Palma's] playfulness is infectious..."
Stephen Farber, Movieline
"Ingeniously twisty
and audaciously twisted...
It's likely worth seeing twice, just to
fully appreciate how De Palma hides
everything in plain sight"
Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
"...has a vitality and verve that hasn't
been seen in [De Palma's] films since the
days of Dressed to Kill and Body Double"
Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"De Palma's best film since Carrie..."
"Femme Fatale provided several sequences
that still haunt my dreams..."
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is the 2002 Cannes
Film Festival's "only incomparable object"
Amy Taubin
"...one of the most interesting
female characters to hit the screen
since John Dahl?s The Last Seduction."
David Nusair, Exclaim!
"...the greatest, most stirring
gratuitous lesbo sex scene ever"
Rolling Stone
"The absolute best bisexual jewel
thief who performs extended
stripteases while seducing a potentially
crooked paparazzo movie ever."
Maxim
How is that? :D
Does anybody know when this is coming out in the UK?
Absolutely totally 100% in agreement, Lenny!
I went to see this on my recent holiday in your land and was totally blown away by this movie. I might be bias as I'm a big DePalma fan, and this really is a return to form for the man after his more recent "director for hire" stuff. I was hoping it would be good,but from the moment it opened I felt, like you, that I was watching a future all time favourite of mine unfold. Every frame had me hypnotised unlike any recent film I can remember.
This film reminded me why I love cinema so much; like you say, DePalma uses the medium to perfection - if only a film of this craftmanship opened every weekend! A film like this really shows up the tat that Hollywood releases every week but that we still see,willing each one to be great. Well this really is a great movie.
What a shame it's doing really poorly at the BO - I guess that's down to poor marketing and the feeling that Warners weren't fully behind this picture.
Anyway GO SEE THIS MOVIE when it opens in the UK, I know I'll be going back for more!
I think a UK release is scheduled for next April.
It's astonishingly good - if this takes a place in Lenny's Top 10 then I think we can forgive him all the Paul Anderson nonsense, his taste isn't completely hopeless ;)
Originally posted by Earl Jolly Brown
It's astonishingly good - if this takes a place in Lenny's Top 10 then I think we can forgive him all the Paul Anderson nonsense, his taste isn't completely hopeless ;)
I think I found something. I found a link between my Top 10 and all the other favorites. I've been reading this great but spoiler filled review at DVDTalk, which I won't link so all of you impatient ones won't read what's not needed, but the reason I'm mentioning it is it has a nice excerpt from a De Palma interview, and what I realized has been in front of me all the time, I just couldn't put my finger on it. I mean, what does Blade Runner, Tailor of Panama, Femme Fatale, and Eye of the Beholder have in common? They're all very visual movies, yes many have great characters, story, and dialogue, but what strikes me most is how they look, the cinematography, the camera moves and angles, the telling of the story through pictures, which is what Brian de Palma says in this bit, highlighted if you don't wanna read the whole thing:
De Palma's sense of his own status in the world is provided by a cantankerous interview the director gave CHUD.com during a round table interview in Los Angeles. When CHUD asked De Palma, "What had you seen of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos?" the director responded by holding up a copy of the new Maxim bearing a cover shot of the model-actress. When CHUD pressed him on the issue, he snapped, "Why do you ask me that question? Look at this girl!…I was getting very close to making a decision about another actress that couldn't get out of a television show [Jennifer Garner of Alias?] and my producer ran into McTiernan who had just worked with her [on Rollerball] and said, 'You've got to see Rebecca Romijn.' He put her on a plane and sent her to Paris. I auditioned with her, I tested her and I said, 'This girl is something.'"
When CHUD asked him, "Will you talk about the style of Femme Fatale? You use a lot of split-screen, there's a sequence where there's no dialogue for about 15 minutes," De Palma exploded. "I am practicing a dying art which is known as telling stories with pictures! You know? You guys want to see character-driven movies, turn on your television sets. They're on every week. If you want to see mysteries, turn on your television sets. They're on every week. They've explored every plot, every emotion that you can absolutely think of. I like to make movies with visual ideas! And I find myself out there all by myself! When I get criticisms about, well, the story doesn't work, the characters…look at the goddamn screen! Look at what's up there! I was stirred by movies that had great visual style. Hitchcock, David Lean, you know, Antonioni, and that's what I am practicing."
But why is De Palma so enraged? "Because I think the whole system hasn't really been good to the creative filmmaker, basically. We're fighting a huge marketing thing now—it just makes it really difficult to make original movies. Every time you have a huge success of some summer children's picture—I mean, that's all the studios think about—when I think about Sam Raimi, a very talented director—he makes Spider-Man. Now look what he's got to do! He's going to make Spider-Man 2. I can't think of anything stupider than making Spider-Man 2. When Tom Cruise came to me and said, "Let's do Mission: Impossible 2," I looked at him and said, "Are you crazy? Why would anyone want to do this twice?" Can you think of a reason except for money? Are we in this for money?
De Palma, like John Carpenter, still has his dedicated fans and followers. One joyous internet reviewer got right to the heart of De Palma's blend of visual sensuality and driving narrative by saying, "Passion and crime are pieces of film reality for De Palma. Without style they make no sense." The same reviewer noted that "Hollywood realized that McTiernan, Cameron and Verhoeven can be replaced by Rob Cohen or Peter Hyams, who bring low budgetary demands, even lower criteria, absolutely no intention of pushing the envelope, and the painful absence of intellectual ambition as they tackle genre cinema."
Yes! Now I know. :brickwall :)
P.S. Oh and another thing, Thierry Arbogast, Luc Besson's DP is the cinematographer on Femme Fatale!
I just saw it the second time yesterday, what a perfect movie all around.
There are numerous clues to the events happening right in front of the viewer, here a list of those I noticed, obviously huge spoilers and are to be read if you don't care or already seen it:
Besides Gregg Henry/Schiff coming out of the elevator and then Peter Coyote walking past talking on the cell phone, there is of course that waitress with the exact same tray with champaigne that Lily later uses to put her into a coma. It is also of course the exact same hotel and room where she was choked by the black guy.
Water: there is the pouring of water on the plane, in the interogation room a cop fills 8 or 10 glasses, overflowing aquarium, asthma and coughing because she's underwater, all flashing through her brain in mere seconds.
The time is the same not only in the interogation room but at the ambassador's building when the detective visits, it's 15:33 everywhere.
The guy on TV that Lily's parents left on says "What if you had your whole life in the palm of your hand, or a crystal ball, or saw it in a dream, would you change it?". Which is of course what she sees later on, and changes it.
The little girl's room has a laptop with a screensaver which occasionaly flashes with that shiny object that the real Lily wears and later gives to the driver of the truck, which later saves Laura's girlfriend from the two thugs by reflecting blinding flash of sun into the driver's eyes and therefore he doesn't turn the steering wheel far enough and nails the thugs onto the metal spikes.
Photographer looking worriedly at the sky wishing for the sun, the Deja Vue 2008 posters everywhere being changed, even in the background at the hotel's cafe when Nicolas pretends to be gay and gets fooled by Laura, etc.
There is so much stuff!
The music, I love the Ravel's Bolero during the opening sequence, I downloaded 4 versions of it by various orchestras, put on an MD and listened to them all day while driving, now I can't get it out of my head! When out of the car, either my feet, or my fingers with a keychain, or whatever else, make the approriate noise trying to recreate the melody, it's stuck in my head.
Tata tam, tata tam, tam, dam,... tata tam, ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta dam! :D
Then the lap dance scene when Laura turns on a jukebox with Saez's Sexe song, that's the second best scene as Laura watches the two guys fight over her, only the camera stays on her and we just see shadows reflected on the wall behind her from a knocked over lamp. That's just a beautiful.
Be sure to get the 5:10 Sexe song, not the 3 min one, it's great!
I can't wait... in fact, can someone pay for me to go and see it somewhere this weekend ?
I notice that FNAC are listing this for a February 2003 release in France on DVD. I caught it originally in Paris in May, so the american release is a little behind. I wonder if they'll be differences between the French R2 and the eventual R1 (surely not forced subs ?) ?
Perhaps even worse - forced subs for the English and none for the French sections? (I saw it in Amsterdam and managed to follow most of the French except for the conversation with the truck-driver.)
Regardless, I'll buy it from whichever country is releasing it first (and then upgrade if need be) - given that a large amount of the film is dialogue-free forced subs wouldn't be much of a problem.
UK cinema release is currently scheduled for April 18th. :(
I've even put in my email at amazon.fr to be notifiied of their DVD release so I'd get it ASAP but yeah, I think there will French subs for some English dialogue and none for French, and since half of this movie is in French, I'll probably have to wait for other edition.
I didn't think much of the movie, a bit dissapointed really.
But i must admit the first 25 mins where entertaining enough :norty:
I've just literally finished watching this 10 mins ago. Isn't broadband great?
First impressions: Eh?:noid: but I know I'll be daydreaming about this in work tomorrow (not the naughty bits). It's been a while since a movie made me think this much.
Cinematography was totally amazing - superbly shot - the camera-work plays as much a part of this movie as the script, as it should especially as there are so many dialogue free scenes. Its like the "magician's sleight of hand" the way the camera moves - there is so much depth, so much going on in each scene, that you're mesmirised and that's what hides the plot clues on your initial viewing. Very clever indeed.
This is a film I'm gonna be going over in my head for some time - and will def be watching again in the next week.
Any sign of a Cinema release so I can see it on the big screen?
:thumbs:
OK, another heads-up as DVDBoxOffice are listing this as released on "Wednesday, November 12, 2003 " ! :( Don't know whether to expect any good extras (or any at all) as it's a Warners film.
Edit- spelling
Thats a R2 DVD then? I sure hope R1 will be MUCH sooner.
That DVDBoxOffice listed release would be an R1 surely? I heard that the French release should be out around April - and that's also the DVD release that I'd be expecting to contain some extras given the French funding for the film, Pathe's distribution, the recent DePalma retrospectives in Paris and the documentaries that have been shown on European TV. But who knows.. A director's commentary is out of the question anyway.
Ah, rough news - French DVD release on 20th of February, a few press-kit extras, apparently English subs where appropriate. Released by TF1.
More news today on the R1 - 18th March.
http://www.dvdfile.com/software/dvd-video/archive/2003/01_09.html
Whoa! Dude, did you see, and then, tadada, all of that, and wham, and he, whoosh, and then kaching, and you ooooh, and then she, aha, and then everything and everyone wheeew, and you go, damn!
Right then. This is Brian de Palma's newest film. If you want to find out more, I suggest you go see it in theaters as soon as it's released.
So, once in a while there comes a movie that makes you realize just how bad the crap you enjoyed actually was, all for the lack of anything better. Femme Fatale is that movie. In the previous months I've watched bad to average forgetable stuff like The Tuxedo, Transporter, I Spy, Truth About Charlie, Ghost Ship, etc, and I've waited for my "next fix" after Ecks vs Sever, hoping Femme Fatale would finally be it. There are some similarities, both of them have Antonio Banderas getting his ass whipped "by a girl" and the great Gregg Henry as a shady character, as well as a beautiful, dominating title female. But similarities, aside from enjoyment, end there.
This is a superbly crafted movie, anything you shake at it, you won't find a plot hole here. The whole film is made up of de Palma's signatures, lots and lots of long takes with an always moving, gliding camera covering intricately detailed scenes, where every bit matters, long split screens, long POVs, all not merely tricks, but a part of, the essense of the movie and its story, driving it forward in a masterfuly edited together film.
If you like that, this is your movie. If you like time gaps, loopbacks full circle, where nothing is what it seems, then this is your movie. If you'd like to see Rebecca Romijn-Stamos be a bad, cunning, decieving, gun toting, cold, manipulative, half-naked lapdancing, vicious b... um girl, then this is your movie.
I had a big smile throughout the whole film out of pure enjoyment, so much so that my cheek muscles got tired of being so happy all the time. Within the first 15 minutes of an awesome opening montage, I knew this is something special, and half-way in, I started thinking in the back of my mind which movie to kick out of my Top 10 to make space for this masterpiece. Yes, some say my taste is bad, but I actually think it's just very intricate, very broad, yet particular in what I like, and following my recommendations, if people don't hate the movie, they love it, there is no middle ground. Femme Fatale is not something to be missed, I promise.
BTW, I wish they used that great European trailer in US, much better at representing the movie than the US version.
Anyway, I'd love to talk about my favorite scenes, of which there are many, how explicit , "ammoral", mischievously great they are, in detail, but that would just spoil it, better go find out for yourself!
******/5
Yes, that's 6 out 5. Time to move another out of Top10 in anticipation of the DVD :thumbs:
To prove my point further, here are a bunch of quotes about the movie:
"An exciting cinematic ravishment
with mind-bending style"
Glen Kenny, Premiere Magazine
"An eye-popping
shriek-at-every-turn
thriller for movie buffs.
Brian De Palma's cleverest,
most entertaining film in years."
Rex Reed, The New York Observer
"Plots within plots,
and payoffs after payoffs."
Roger Ebert, Chicago-Sun Times
"Ingeniously twisty and audaciously
twisted. It's worth seeing twice."
Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
"It's his sexiest, most suspenseful
thriller since 'Body Double'."
Dave Itzkoff, Spin Magazine
"Its sheer visual ingenuity is
as breathtaking as anything
you'll see on screen anywhere.
Gourmet eye candy."
Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star
"A stunningly conducted visual symphony"
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
"It's filled with moments when you think
'De Palma wouldn't dare, would he?'
after which, sure enough, he dares."
Glenn Kenny, Premiere
"When a neo-noir virtuoso such as Brian
De Palma calls a movie Femme Fatale,
you know he means business"
David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor
"An extravagant suspense cocktail of
wacky and lascivious ingredients"
Variety
"...a film of relentless sex, spectacular
sequences without dialogue, plots within
plots, and payoffs after payoffs.
De Palma is in form."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"[De Palma's] playfulness is infectious..."
Stephen Farber, Movieline
"Ingeniously twisty
and audaciously twisted...
It's likely worth seeing twice, just to
fully appreciate how De Palma hides
everything in plain sight"
Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
"...has a vitality and verve that hasn't
been seen in [De Palma's] films since the
days of Dressed to Kill and Body Double"
Patrick Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"De Palma's best film since Carrie..."
"Femme Fatale provided several sequences
that still haunt my dreams..."
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos is the 2002 Cannes
Film Festival's "only incomparable object"
Amy Taubin
"...one of the most interesting
female characters to hit the screen
since John Dahl?s The Last Seduction."
David Nusair, Exclaim!
"...the greatest, most stirring
gratuitous lesbo sex scene ever"
Rolling Stone
"The absolute best bisexual jewel
thief who performs extended
stripteases while seducing a potentially
crooked paparazzo movie ever."
Maxim
How is that? :D
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Does anybody know when this is coming out in the UK?
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Absolutely totally 100% in agreement, Lenny!
I went to see this on my recent holiday in your land and was totally blown away by this movie. I might be bias as I'm a big DePalma fan, and this really is a return to form for the man after his more recent "director for hire" stuff. I was hoping it would be good,but from the moment it opened I felt, like you, that I was watching a future all time favourite of mine unfold. Every frame had me hypnotised unlike any recent film I can remember.
This film reminded me why I love cinema so much; like you say, DePalma uses the medium to perfection - if only a film of this craftmanship opened every weekend! A film like this really shows up the tat that Hollywood releases every week but that we still see,willing each one to be great. Well this really is a great movie.
What a shame it's doing really poorly at the BO - I guess that's down to poor marketing and the feeling that Warners weren't fully behind this picture.
Anyway GO SEE THIS MOVIE when it opens in the UK, I know I'll be going back for more!
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I think a UK release is scheduled for next April.
It's astonishingly good - if this takes a place in Lenny's Top 10 then I think we can forgive him all the Paul Anderson nonsense, his taste isn't completely hopeless ;)
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Originally posted by Earl Jolly Brown
It's astonishingly good - if this takes a place in Lenny's Top 10 then I think we can forgive him all the Paul Anderson nonsense, his taste isn't completely hopeless ;)
I think I found something. I found a link between my Top 10 and all the other favorites. I've been reading this great but spoiler filled review at DVDTalk, which I won't link so all of you impatient ones won't read what's not needed, but the reason I'm mentioning it is it has a nice excerpt from a De Palma interview, and what I realized has been in front of me all the time, I just couldn't put my finger on it. I mean, what does Blade Runner, Tailor of Panama, Femme Fatale, and Eye of the Beholder have in common? They're all very visual movies, yes many have great characters, story, and dialogue, but what strikes me most is how they look, the cinematography, the camera moves and angles, the telling of the story through pictures, which is what Brian de Palma says in this bit, highlighted if you don't wanna read the whole thing:
De Palma's sense of his own status in the world is provided by a cantankerous interview the director gave CHUD.com during a round table interview in Los Angeles. When CHUD asked De Palma, "What had you seen of Rebecca Romijn-Stamos?" the director responded by holding up a copy of the new Maxim bearing a cover shot of the model-actress. When CHUD pressed him on the issue, he snapped, "Why do you ask me that question? Look at this girl!…I was getting very close to making a decision about another actress that couldn't get out of a television show [Jennifer Garner of Alias?] and my producer ran into McTiernan who had just worked with her [on Rollerball] and said, 'You've got to see Rebecca Romijn.' He put her on a plane and sent her to Paris. I auditioned with her, I tested her and I said, 'This girl is something.'"
When CHUD asked him, "Will you talk about the style of Femme Fatale? You use a lot of split-screen, there's a sequence where there's no dialogue for about 15 minutes," De Palma exploded. "I am practicing a dying art which is known as telling stories with pictures! You know? You guys want to see character-driven movies, turn on your television sets. They're on every week. If you want to see mysteries, turn on your television sets. They're on every week. They've explored every plot, every emotion that you can absolutely think of. I like to make movies with visual ideas! And I find myself out there all by myself! When I get criticisms about, well, the story doesn't work, the characters…look at the goddamn screen! Look at what's up there! I was stirred by movies that had great visual style. Hitchcock, David Lean, you know, Antonioni, and that's what I am practicing."
But why is De Palma so enraged? "Because I think the whole system hasn't really been good to the creative filmmaker, basically. We're fighting a huge marketing thing now—it just makes it really difficult to make original movies. Every time you have a huge success of some summer children's picture—I mean, that's all the studios think about—when I think about Sam Raimi, a very talented director—he makes Spider-Man. Now look what he's got to do! He's going to make Spider-Man 2. I can't think of anything stupider than making Spider-Man 2. When Tom Cruise came to me and said, "Let's do Mission: Impossible 2," I looked at him and said, "Are you crazy? Why would anyone want to do this twice?" Can you think of a reason except for money? Are we in this for money?
De Palma, like John Carpenter, still has his dedicated fans and followers. One joyous internet reviewer got right to the heart of De Palma's blend of visual sensuality and driving narrative by saying, "Passion and crime are pieces of film reality for De Palma. Without style they make no sense." The same reviewer noted that "Hollywood realized that McTiernan, Cameron and Verhoeven can be replaced by Rob Cohen or Peter Hyams, who bring low budgetary demands, even lower criteria, absolutely no intention of pushing the envelope, and the painful absence of intellectual ambition as they tackle genre cinema."
Yes! Now I know. :brickwall :)
P.S. Oh and another thing, Thierry Arbogast, Luc Besson's DP is the cinematographer on Femme Fatale!
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I just saw it the second time yesterday, what a perfect movie all around.
There are numerous clues to the events happening right in front of the viewer, here a list of those I noticed, obviously huge spoilers and are to be read if you don't care or already seen it:
Besides Gregg Henry/Schiff coming out of the elevator and then Peter Coyote walking past talking on the cell phone, there is of course that waitress with the exact same tray with champaigne that Lily later uses to put her into a coma. It is also of course the exact same hotel and room where she was choked by the black guy.
Water: there is the pouring of water on the plane, in the interogation room a cop fills 8 or 10 glasses, overflowing aquarium, asthma and coughing because she's underwater, all flashing through her brain in mere seconds.
The time is the same not only in the interogation room but at the ambassador's building when the detective visits, it's 15:33 everywhere.
The guy on TV that Lily's parents left on says "What if you had your whole life in the palm of your hand, or a crystal ball, or saw it in a dream, would you change it?". Which is of course what she sees later on, and changes it.
The little girl's room has a laptop with a screensaver which occasionaly flashes with that shiny object that the real Lily wears and later gives to the driver of the truck, which later saves Laura's girlfriend from the two thugs by reflecting blinding flash of sun into the driver's eyes and therefore he doesn't turn the steering wheel far enough and nails the thugs onto the metal spikes.
Photographer looking worriedly at the sky wishing for the sun, the Deja Vue 2008 posters everywhere being changed, even in the background at the hotel's cafe when Nicolas pretends to be gay and gets fooled by Laura, etc.
There is so much stuff!
The music, I love the Ravel's Bolero during the opening sequence, I downloaded 4 versions of it by various orchestras, put on an MD and listened to them all day while driving, now I can't get it out of my head! When out of the car, either my feet, or my fingers with a keychain, or whatever else, make the approriate noise trying to recreate the melody, it's stuck in my head.
Tata tam, tata tam, tam, dam,... tata tam, ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta dam! :D
Then the lap dance scene when Laura turns on a jukebox with Saez's Sexe song, that's the second best scene as Laura watches the two guys fight over her, only the camera stays on her and we just see shadows reflected on the wall behind her from a knocked over lamp. That's just a beautiful.
Be sure to get the 5:10 Sexe song, not the 3 min one, it's great!
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I can't wait... in fact, can someone pay for me to go and see it somewhere this weekend ?
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I notice that FNAC are listing this for a February 2003 release in France on DVD. I caught it originally in Paris in May, so the american release is a little behind. I wonder if they'll be differences between the French R2 and the eventual R1 (surely not forced subs ?) ?
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Perhaps even worse - forced subs for the English and none for the French sections? (I saw it in Amsterdam and managed to follow most of the French except for the conversation with the truck-driver.)
Regardless, I'll buy it from whichever country is releasing it first (and then upgrade if need be) - given that a large amount of the film is dialogue-free forced subs wouldn't be much of a problem.
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UK cinema release is currently scheduled for April 18th. :(
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I've even put in my email at amazon.fr to be notifiied of their DVD release so I'd get it ASAP but yeah, I think there will French subs for some English dialogue and none for French, and since half of this movie is in French, I'll probably have to wait for other edition.
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I didn't think much of the movie, a bit dissapointed really.
But i must admit the first 25 mins where entertaining enough :norty:
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I've just literally finished watching this 10 mins ago. Isn't broadband great?
First impressions: Eh?:noid: but I know I'll be daydreaming about this in work tomorrow (not the naughty bits). It's been a while since a movie made me think this much.
Cinematography was totally amazing - superbly shot - the camera-work plays as much a part of this movie as the script, as it should especially as there are so many dialogue free scenes. Its like the "magician's sleight of hand" the way the camera moves - there is so much depth, so much going on in each scene, that you're mesmirised and that's what hides the plot clues on your initial viewing. Very clever indeed.
This is a film I'm gonna be going over in my head for some time - and will def be watching again in the next week.
Any sign of a Cinema release so I can see it on the big screen?
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OK, another heads-up as DVDBoxOffice are listing this as released on "Wednesday, November 12, 2003 " ! :( Don't know whether to expect any good extras (or any at all) as it's a Warners film.
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Thats a R2 DVD then? I sure hope R1 will be MUCH sooner.
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That DVDBoxOffice listed release would be an R1 surely? I heard that the French release should be out around April - and that's also the DVD release that I'd be expecting to contain some extras given the French funding for the film, Pathe's distribution, the recent DePalma retrospectives in Paris and the documentaries that have been shown on European TV. But who knows.. A director's commentary is out of the question anyway.
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Ah, rough news - French DVD release on 20th of February, a few press-kit extras, apparently English subs where appropriate. Released by TF1.
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More news today on the R1 - 18th March.
http://www.dvdfile.com/software/dvd-video/archive/2003/01_09.html
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