Warner Bros has launched a major PR operation yesterday, trying to paint Brian De Palma's new film, "Femme Fatale" as a hot number. You've got sexy items in all major gossip columns,a major story in the L.A. Times and the opening of the movie official website.
Starring supermodels Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Rie Rasmussen The movie has already played all over Europe, and it includes some hot scenes, but nothing to write home about by European standards. It is approved with a "R" rating simply because it's the usual De Palma stuff, nothing more.
You get to see Rebecca stripping around and on a pool table (I still prefer the Kim Basinger scene from 9 1/2 weeks), one sex scene between her and Antonio Banderas and of course a very talked about lesbian scene between her and Rie Rasmussen.
Both Rolling Stone ("the greatest, most stirring gratuitous lesbo sex scene ever") and the NY Post's page six ("Bisexual Rie pulling a fellow top mannequin into an airplane bathroom for some sapphic action") go ballistic about "souces" telling them that Rie's love scene with Stamos was inspired by a real-life, Emmanuelle-like incident. But the truth is that Rie herself, best known for her Gucci campaign, has acknowledged in a candid interview with models.com that she is bi-sexual, and didn't refute the story, so you can't call it "a tale" as the papers do.
Faithful readers of this humble weblog probably remember this hot link, proving that Rie is more sexy on paper than on celluloid.