Femme Fatale (2002 film)

Femme Fatale
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBrian De Palma
Written byBrian De Palma
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyThierry Arbogast
Edited byBill Pankow
Music byRyuichi Sakamoto
Production
companies
  • Quinta Communications
  • Epsilon Motion Pictures
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 30 April 2002 (2002-04-30) (France)
  • 6 November 2002 (2002-11-06) (United States)
  • 27 March 2003 (2003-03-27) (Germany)
Running time
110 minutes
Countries
Languages
  • English
  • French
Budget$35 million
Box office$16.8 million

Femme Fatale is a 2002 erotic thriller film[2][3] written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Antonio Banderas and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.[4]

Upon its release, Femme Fatale received mixed reviews from film critics and became a box office flop. However, the film has since been better received by many critics and gradually regarded as a cult classic.[5][6][7][8] Warner Bros. had included the film in the catalogue of Warner Archive Collection.[9] In May 2022, Shout! Factory (under license from Warner Bros) released a special edition Blu-ray of the film.[10]

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  2. ^ @Scream_Factory (28 February 2022). "***NEW OFFICIAL TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT***FEMME FATALE is on Blu-ray for the 1st time 5/17! Brian De Palma's stylish…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "Femme Fatale". Quad Cinema.
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Femme Fatale". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
  5. ^ "Director Brian de Palma's underrated gems, decade by decade". Los Angeles Times. 10 June 2016.
  6. ^ Koresky, Michael (17 July 2019). "Queer and Now and Then: 2002". Film Comment.
  7. ^ Sobczynski, Peter (23 August 2013). "Brian De Palma on "Passion," passion and film | Features". RogerEbert.com.
  8. ^ Sims, David (27 September 2019). "Antonio Banderas is One of the Best Movie Stars of His Generation". The Atlantic.
  9. ^ "Femme Fatale (2002)". WBShop.com. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Femme Fatale - Blu-ray". Shout! Factory.