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For me Brian Depalma's work through the years has been wildly uneven but there is no doubt as to his talent and his love of Hitchcock. This one was written and directed by him and is one of his finest. It is not unlike "Mulholland Drive" in a certain way, and features the usual DePalma sexiness and plot twists. I got more out of it the second time because I knwew what was coming and could savor the
way the writer/director sets us up. Excellent, old fashioned musical score, as well.
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Until Femme Fatale , I had never been able to say that I thought a Brian De Palma movie is good, and that's not for lack of trying on my part. But Femme Fatale is the best De Palma movie I've seen. Personally, I think Mulholland Drive is in a different league entirely, but this one now has me curious about De Palma once again. Analog Scott's complaints are valid -- the movie certainly does demand a good deal flexibility on the part of the viewer, and some people won't like that. I loved it.
In his four star review, Ebert observed that it was an exercise in pure film making.
You liked it better than The Untouchables, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out and (gasp) Scarface?
Not sure if I saw Dressed To Kill (probably did somewhere along the way), but I did like it better than the other three.
Funny, I hated this movie. I thought it was nothing more than a big cheat. Twists and turns are easy if you don't follow any rules as a film maker.
anywhere near as much the first time I saw it, either.
The set up for starters was ridiculous. One does not walk into a stranger's house only to find an oppurtunity to exchange lives with a former resident to to an unimpeachable physical likeness but....The real problem is that the dream is a gross cheat. It is a gross cheat becuase the narative continues in a conventional style. Things are revealed in the dream that are not shown from the perspective of the dreamer and are unknown to her. To me that is simply unexceptable. I will go on any journy of make believe any film maker wishes to take me on but when the basic rules of logic are so trampled on even within the unrealistic convention that is set up by a movie it pisses me off. I love it when a movie out smarts me but I hate it when a movie falls back on a cheat that makes no sense within the context that has been set up. The irectror may have well just walked into picture at the end and said "hey it's just a movie and you knew that." It would have been no less a break in the established reality of the movie.
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