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And he’s as good with actors as ever, drawing expert performances from Park Hae-il as a drifting detective and especially Tang Wei as the most slippery yet sympathetic of femmes fatales.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

And not just the femmes fatales, but women like the aforementioned Anne Riordan, the cop’s daughter who helps Marlowe break the case in Farewell, My Lovely.

From Slate • Jul. 9, 2018

Today’s girls are neither “tough girls,” like that moto-jacketed Salander; nor femmes fatales, like the vixens who dominated noir fiction and films; nor “good girls” like Nancy and her prim posse, Bess and George.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2017

“I envisaged her as someone who had grown up watching femmes fatales and now she was getting to be one herself.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2016

At Michael Werner, Picabia paintings of femmes fatales and a Polke abstraction anchor a sculptural head by Thomas Houseago, the current Whitney Biennial artist.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2010