Whenever a good director makes a visually stunning movie out of a flawed or absurd scenario, there's a tendency to applaud his sow's-ear-to-silk-purse witchcraft and forgive the script's shortcomings. But how do you deal with a movie like Brian De Palma's "Femme Fatale," where the lousy scenario the filmmaker rescues with his expertise was written, unaided, by that very same director?
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