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This story begins at the 2001 Cannes International Film Festival, in which Laura (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) audaciously and cunningly steals a valuable jewel and outwits her accomplices. A successful businessman meets her during a flight to America, and she enjoys an anonymous life abroad with him under a changed identity. After seven years, the businessman is appointed ambassador to France, and his wife Lili (formerly Laura) returns to France with him.
The former paparazzi Nicolas is constantly after Laura and tries to expose her for what she is. He takes her picture for a major tabloid magazine, plus her former accomplices, now out of prison, identify her and decide to take revenge. Laura’s life is threatened, but being a devil incarnate, it knows how to defend itself by any means.
Everything that has always interested Brian De Palma about the film is found in abundance in this film. Violence and betrayal, clever heists, carefully graded suspense and unbelievable coincidences, a clever plot, a change of identity, inspirations from film noir, beautiful women and, of course, sex and seduction. All of this is presented in an impressive visual presentation, often splitting the picture into two parts with two storylines running in parallel.
- IMDb rating: 62%
- Genre: Thriller
- Director: Brian De Palma
- Starring: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Rie Rasmussen, Gregg Henry, Eriq Ebouaney, Edouard Montoute
- Origin and Premiere: France, 2002
- Running time: 114 minutes
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