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La femme fatale (AFI: /ˈfam faˈtal/ letteralmente "donna fatale"), a volte chiamata mangiatrice di uomini, vamp o scherzosamente fatalona, è un personaggio tipo riconoscibile come una donna misteriosa, attraente e seducente il cui fascino irretisce i suoi amanti, conducendoli spesso in trappole mortali e compromettenti.
Femme fatale è un film del 2002 scritto e diretto da Brian De Palma, interpretato da Rebecca Romijn e Antonio Banderas, presentato fuori concorso al 55º Festival di Cannes.
Femme fatale - Un film di Brian De Palma. Un omaggio al noir classico francese. Con Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Rebecca Romijn, Eriq Ebouaney, Rie Rasmussen. Thriller, USA, 2002. Durata 110 min.
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22 nov 2002 · Femme Fatale è un film di genere poliziesco, thriller del 2002, diretto da Brian De Palma, con Rebecca Romijn e Antonio Banderas. Uscita al cinema il 22 novembre 2002....
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- Ancient Archetypes
- Early Western Culture to The 19th Century
- 20Th-Century Genres
The femme fatale archetype exists in the culture, folklore and myths of many cultures. Ancient mythical or legendary examples include Inanna, Lilith, Circe, Medea, Clytemnestra, Lesbia, Tamamo no Mae, and Visha Kanyas. Historical examples from classical times include Cleopatra and Messalina, as well as the biblical figures Delilah, Jezebel, and Sal...
The femme fatale was a common figure in the European Middle Ages, often portraying the dangers of unbridled female sexuality. The pre-medieval inherited biblical figure of Eve offers an example, as does the wicked, seductive enchantress typified in Morgan le Fay. The Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute shows her more muted presence durin...
Early 20th century
Mrs Patrick Campbell, George Bernard Shaw's "second famed platonic love affair", (she published some of his letters) and Philip Burne-Jones's lover and subject of his 1897 painting, The Vampire, inspired Burne-Jones's cousin Rudyard Kipling to write his poem "The Vampire", in the year Dracula was published. The poem, which began: "A fool there was ...", inspired Porter Emerson Browne to write the play, A Fool There Was. The poem was adapted to become a 1909 Broadway production. This was follo...
Classic film noir era
During the era of classic film-noirs of the 1940s and 1950s, the femme fatale flourished in American cinema. The archetypal femme fatale is Phyllis Dietrichson, played by Barbara Stanwyck (who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for this role) in the 1944 film Double Indemnity. This character is considered one of the best femme fatale roles in film noir history. The character was ranked as the #8 film villain of the first 100 years of American cinema by the American Film Inst...
1980s to the present
The femme fatale has carried on to the present day, in films such as Body Heat (1981) and Prizzi's Honor (1985) – both with Kathleen Turner, Blade Runner (1982) with Sean Young, The Hunger (1983) with Catherine Deneuve, Blue Velvet (1986) with Isabella Rossellini, Vamp (1986) with Grace Jones, Fatal Attraction (1987) with Glenn Close, The Witches (1990) with Anjelica Huston, Basic Instinct (1992) with Sharon Stone, Damage (1992) with Juliette Binoche, The Last Seduction (1994) with Linda Fior...
The femme fatale is an archetype that appears throughout history in mythology, art, and literature and became a principal character in the hard-boiled detective novels and classic film noir of the 20th century.
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