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Rebecca Romijn-Stamos,
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos,
Antonio Banderas,
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Brian De Palma,
Brian De Palma
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: Warner Home Video
: Neo Noir, Erotica
: 114 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish, French
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Brian De Palma blends the emotional netherworld of film noir with a stylish portrayal of life among the wealthy and powerful in Paris in this glossy thriller. Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) is a beautiful but mysterious woman who has aligned herself with a small ring of jewel thieves, led by a man known as Black Tie (Eriq Ebouaney), who has planned a major score during the Cannes Film Festival. Sexy model Veronica (Rie Rasmussen) is scheduled to make a spectacular entrance for the screening of director Regis Wargnier's picture, wearing a body-hugging piece of jewelry worth a cool ten million dollars. Laure approaches the sexually adventurous Veronica and is able to seduce her, while at the same time stealing her diamond-studded outfit and replacing it with a carefully constructed counterfeit. Veronica, however, also makes off the loot without giving her partners their cut, and must go into hiding in order to avoid the wrath of Black Tie and his cohorts. Fate allows Laure to make her way to the United States, where in time she marries a powerful politician. Photographer Nicolas Bardo (Antonio Banderas), however, had snapped a picture of Laure while she was on the lam years before, and when he takes an assignment to get a photo of the camera-shy woman, Laure realizes Nicolas is in a position to reveal her new identity to the world -- and put the bloodthirsty Black Tie back on her trail. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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by Emomovieluver
April 29, 2003 - 3:27 PM PDT
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6 out of 8 members found this review helpful
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| Film school students take note! This is the movie you have to see and the director you have to study in order to graduate class! I'm sure many a more prolific film reviewer can rant and rave about the movie's more cinematic inspirations, cinema historic tributes to and aspirations with the POV roving camera viewpoints and angles but the movie just plain blows me away! Acting-wise, Rebecca Romijn plays her role out effectively and it's good to see Coyote again. Banderas ultimately has a smaller role than I though but enough... Just rent it right away because DePalma does it again. |
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