At Pianos the group briefly featured guest vocals by Gordon Gano, formerly of the Violent Femmes, whose take on warped Americana bears some relevance to the Delta Spirit sound.
Artist Alex Prager is known for her female heroines who straddle the line between a Hitchcock blonde and a Cindy Sherman doll-woman; semi-tragic femmes whose placid exteriors hide immense internal tension.
Chabrol also began working with Isabelle Huppert, whom he cast in complex roles exploiting her often opaque beauty: as the teenage patricide in 1978's Violette Nozière, for instance, and the abortionist capital convict a decade later in Une Affaire de Femmes, whose attention to wartime collaboration proved controversial.
"I'd Love to Kill You," one of four songs written with a new collaborator, Guy Chambers, is the fantasy of a would-be femme fatale whose kisses are lethal.
The discoveries include a preparatory sketch of a lost work, possibly entitled Les Baigneuses (Bathers), and a large painting, Femme L'Avant, whose owner said it had not been displayed since 1934.
He did more than figure out how to translate that blameless story of a femme fatale whose love swerved back and forth between two best friends; it became his masterpiece.
The narrator of "Blood on My Hands" a kind of post-Freudian nightmare, is a pampered star and femme fatale whose male admirers give her guns and challenge her to cut a deadly swath, which she proceeds to do, at least in her mind.
Brooks's performance, that tiny secret smile playing across her blank face framed by that black helmet street urchin haircut, transformed her into the world's first great screen icon, the eternal child woman, a boyish femme fatale whose image would haunt the 20th century.
Sulkowicz, who identifies as femme and whose pronouns are they and them, is best known for "Mattress Performance," their senior thesis.
As cited above, they are sometimes equated with the sirens of Greek mythology (especially the Odyssey), half-bird femme fatales whose enchanting voices would lure soon-to-be-shipwrecked sailors to nearby rocks, sandbars or shoals.
It was a painfully unfunny "cartoon" that tells the story of some superheroes, including a "transvestite in denial" who believes they're Tori Amos, and a "Manic depressive femme dyke" whose superpower is that she's "a raving lesbian".
