(Juergen Teller’s Louis XV No. 2, Paris, 2004, featuring Charlotte Rampling. Courtesy of the photographer.) In Snapshots of Dangerous Women, a charming book of found photographs dating from the first ...
Mata Hari is one of history's ultimate femme fatales. She gained fame for her seductive dancing, only to be executed by the French for being a double agent. These days, her name is a byword for ...
An evocative inversion of the “damsel in distress” trope, the femme fatale has become one of cinema’s most compelling character archetypes. A femme fatale is a cunning seductress ensnaring men with ...
Few film archetypes have been more adored or debated than the femme fatale - beautiful, seductive, dangerous and cunning, like Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity"... (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "DOUBLE ...
From villainous vixens to irresistible beauty and scandalous powers of persuasion, the femme fatales of the 1980s were some of the most formidable characters in Hollywood's dark history. Boiling ...