Barbara Carrera conjures a deliciously over-the-top femme fatale called Fatima Blush, and Connery delivers one of his most charismatic performances and is clearly having great fun with his double entendres and tongue-in-cheek dialogue. He also dazzles with a ballroom tango (a cinematic first for...
The sexually liberal heroine of Frank Wedekind's fin de siecle tragedy is a femme fatale of legendary proportions. And that is reflected in Pandora's Box, Kneehigh's new multi-media adaptation, currently touring the country. The set looks like a grand city reduced to rubble: chandeliers ...
The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late nineteenth-century British culture. As a stereotype she has been 'fabricated', that is to say constructed as a 'figure in the carpet' of the fin-de-si...