Passion (Brian De Palma)

[angrycinephile]

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Not since ‘Dressed to Kill’ have I had a chance to combine eroticism, suspense, mystery and murder into one spell-binding cinematic experience.

Sold!

Stars Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace.

Pino Donaggio will compose the score.

[Sven]

Has he disowned Femme Fatale?

I was hoping his next would be one of these.

[Irish]

Did he really just call his own unreleased stuff "spellbinding"?

I'll see this eventually. DePalma's stuff is a train wreck these day, but it's almost alway chock full of good ideas.

[number8]

Has he disowned Femme Fatale?

I was hoping his next would be one of these.

Or Body Double? Kind of a weird way to sell your own movie. Femme Fatale's his only good movie in like 20 years, so I'm excited for something like it, too. Maybe this one's gonna aim to be a little more self-serious?

[Raiders]

'Bout damn time.

[Pop Trash]

I wanna dip mah balls in it.

[Stay Puft]

Wait a minute... is this a remake of Alain Corneau's Love Crime?

[angrycinephile]

Wait a minute... is this a remake of Alain Corneau's Love Crime?

It is.

[dreamdead]

It is.

Have people seen Love Crime? Worth queuing? DePalmaesque inherently or will these be interesting and distinct?

[Boner M]

De Palma, u old dawg.

[Stay Puft]

Have people seen Love Crime? Worth queuing?

Not really. I wrote this in the 2011 new release thread:


An entertaining trifle, but ends up going on for far too long. Would have been a lot better if the film didn't walk through every step of the big plan with black & white flashbacks, which just ruin the fun.

There are worse ways to kill two hours than watching Ludivine Sagnier and Kristin Scott Thomas do their thing, but the material is flimsy and I found Corneau's style rather dry (never seen any of his other films so I don't know how much this speaks to his work).

[Boner M]

Only seen Corneau's Serie Noir, which is great solely for Patrick Dewaere's blistering performance. Corneau's wisest move is not interfering.

[dreamdead]

More evidence (http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2012/05/rachel-mcadams-passion-looks-fantastic) that De Palma's trying to make Femme Fatale appear unsexy by comparison...

(pardon the sad misogyny on display in that link)

[Grouchy]

(pardon the sad misogyny on display in that link)
Huh?

Anyway, even though I love Femme Fatale and I know De Palma's films are always meta-cinema in some way, I feel bitterly disappointed that he's directing an American remake.

[Sxottlan]

So this was a whole lot of nothing. And the acting in some scenes was shockingly bad.