Genre: Biography/Drama
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Writer: Lon Charles
Cast: Suki Waterhouse, Jared Leto, Shia LaBeouf, David Strathairn, Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Irvine, Michael Pitt, Toby Kebbell, Jim Sturgess
Budget: $38,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $44,722,075
Foreign Box Office: $39,312,763
Total Profit: -$11,475,241
Reaction: Definitely not what we wanted to see. This becomes our first biographical film to lose money at the box office. Maybe Edie Sedgwick isn't well-known enough these days to get people to go see her life story on the big screen.
"Femme Fatale is an uncompromising biopic that doesn't idealize any of its characters - not even minor ones. Everybody is portrayed in shades of gray, warts of all. Not a lot of biopics do this." - Dennis Smith - Orlando Sentinel
"The film follows the standard biography format far too closely. First the subject rises to fame/notoriety, then comes the fall from grace, then the character either dies or they make a comeback. The film loses its edge by hewing so closely to the formula." - Bruce Vickers, Baltimore Sun
"This film is all about the performances. Jared Leto predictably disappears into the role of Andy Warhol, Shia LaBeouf gets to stretch his acting muscles playing a little known side of Bob Dylan, but the real stand-out here is Suki Waterhouse as Edie Sedgwick. Waterhouse can no longer be considered a model who sometimes acts - she is a bonafide actress now." - Rick Green, New Yorker
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