An-tit-cipation for Brian De Palma ’s latest scorcher, Passion (2012), has been high ever since our Skin Skout took in all the scintillating Sapphic action at the Toronto International Film Fest . The official report confirmed that not only do Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace culminate their killer rivalry with a couple of lusty lesbian lip locks, but Noomi goes topless just 12 minutes in! Passion hits VOD on August 1st and arrives in theaters on August 30th, and thanks to our friends at Entertainment One we now have a few stills of Rachel and Noomi giving in to their sexual tension. See pics after the jump!
An-tit-cipation for Brian De Palma ’s latest scorcher, Passion (2012), has been high ever since our Skin Skout took in all the scintillating Sapphic action at the Toronto International Film Fest . The official report confirmed that not only do Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace culminate their killer rivalry with a couple of lusty lesbian lip locks, but Noomi goes topless just 12 minutes in! Passion hits VOD on August 1st and arrives in theaters on August 30th, and thanks to our friends at Entertainment One we now have a few stills of Rachel and Noomi giving in to their sexual tension. See pics after the jump!
The first trailer for the remake of another classic horror film — Stephen King’s Carrie — is out, and it’s looking anemic compared to the bloody and blood-curdling promotional campaign that Evil Dead has waged over the last several months. Boys Don’t Cry director Kimberly Peirce is certainly capable of bringing something original to this story, but, based on the trailer, I don’t see it. The only new twist I detect appears to be that Carrie’s traumatic first encounter with menstruation is going to end up on the Internet thanks to a cell-phone wielding mean girl in the scene. The rest of the action in this clip appears to copy the plot of Brian De Palma’s original 1976 adaptation without upping the fright factor. There’s another factor to consider that a reader raised the last time I wrote about this movie : Even beneath a an awful haircut, Carrie star Chloe Grace Moretz’s beauty shines through, which makes it difficult to believe that she could be a weird pariah in high school. What do you think? Let me know in the comments section. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
Brian DePalma has filmed some amazing nude scenes over the years (Exhibit A: Penthouse pet Victoria Lynn Johnson ‘s shower scene in Dressed to Kill ), including some scorching Sapphic ones (Exhibit B: Rebecca Romijn and Rie Rasmussen in Femme Fatale ). Of course, he’s also made some real stinkers, so we’re overjoyed that DePalma is sticking to what he knows best- slick psychosexual thrillers- for his new movie Passion . Passion is still in post-production, but the first official image from the film (above) promises some lesbian liplock action between stars Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams . Ohhhhh, that red lipstick… Find out more about Passion after the jump!
Finally! Brian De Palma is getting out of the repugnant war-screed business pioneered in Redacted and back into the sexy-time homage-remake business with which he made his name. This time it’s Passion , a thriller based on the late Alain Corneau’s acclaimed 2010 French potboiler Love Crime and featuring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace taking over for Kristen Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier, respectively. In the first photo released from the film, the actresses do what comes naturally… to, uh, De Palma. Is that necessarily a bad thing? The Cannes market will be the first to know, with Passion headed to the Croisette as one of the myriad films on the block — yet most likely the only one with the synopsis passage, “Christine loves surprises. Naked she goes to meet the mystery lover waiting in her bedroom…” File under LOLrotic. Or not? Maybe it’s a worthy successor to Corneau. Anyway, here’s the full breakdown via The Playlist : An erotic thriller in the tradition of Dressed To Kill and Basic Instinct , Brian de Palma’s PASSION tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine possesses the natural elegance and casual ease associated with one who has a healthy relationship with money and power. Innocent, lovely and easily exploited, her admiring protégé Isabelle is full of cutting-edge ideas that Christine has no qualms about stealing. They’re on the same team, after all… Christine takes pleasure in exercising control over the younger woman, leading her one step at a time ever deeper into a game of seduction and manipulation, dominance and humiliation. But when Isabelle falls into bed with one of Christine’s lovers, war breaks out. On the night of the murder, Isabelle is at the ballet, while Christine receives an invitation to seduction. From whom? Christine loves surprises. Naked she goes to meet the mystery lover waiting in her bedroom… [ The Playlist ]
This week on cable, rebel politics are in the air — just as your fight-the-power muscle felt like it was growing slack and the news seems just politics as usual… Find everyone from Warren Beatty to Melvin Van Peebles to Brian De Palma after the jump.
