Friday, March 31, 2006
FEMME FATALE
There is something about seeing someone boldly and skillfully 'getting away with it'; whatever 'it' is.
It is not necessary admiration. There is that itch to see it work. There is excitement in all the unrepentedness of it.
A likable sociopath.
Such is the case with the woman in Today's NYTimes Best 1176 Films.
Linda Fiorentino has the role most actresses would kill for (well she does) in
Bill Pullman and Peter Berg are the men that she has it out with.
It is a thriller. It is funny. It is surprising. And it has that guilty pleasure of seeing an evil job well done.
There are many twists and turns. The director is John Dahl.
I am going to order his Red Rock West which came out the same year or, actually, was discovered and returned from video hell to play in theaters successfully.
Even if you don't like the amorality of it all, the photography and some of the business is just delicious.
Here and there the plot is a bit too much and so I will give it a 4 out of Netflix 5.
