The beautiful Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is a young woman who does not hide his ambition boundless: she wants to break into the world of TV. Leaves to get rid of all those who could put a spoke in the wheel, starting with her own husband ...
Die For is a very important film in the career of its director and its main entry. Gus Van Sant, hitherto associated with an independent film is rougher sees the door ajar studios and most prestigious productions for a journey full of exciting movies like Good Will Hunting and replay psychosis. As for Nicole Kidman although it has shown some talent in some minor but effective film ( Quiet White , Malice ) its status as wife of Tom Cruise and the limited scope of roles involving the pair ( Days of Thunder, Far Horizons confess a soft spot for it) attracts much attention on it but everything will change with Die For .
Andy Warhol extolled the principle that everyone was entitled to a day in his life at 15 minutes of fame and that's the only thing which just over Suzanne Stone. At the opening, Van Sant offers a fragmented narrative in which various types of filming will upset. The appearance is variable depending on the perspective adopted, but also according to the purpose intended. So all the scene of narration "classic" with a photograph in pastel colors using values of garish outfits Kidman and referring to the commercial world of his ideal. On the other side interventions were facing camera Suzanne Stone on strengthening its immaculate white artificiality and giving her opinion biased and hypocritical about the events of the story. The process is also included as a report "on the spot" where actors are filmed in their everyday environments in which even more ironically as part of a TV reality show so highly touted. Van Sant also included in its mounting inserts a few flashforward on places or objects that will be important later. 
All this rain of fireworks is with the portrait of a lackluster ambitious social climber found to be actually "ready for anything." Van Sant knows his classics and is thought by a modernized version of Sunset Boulevard with this game on the magnitude as heroin and attributes to himself the eyes of others far less flattering (the sequence towards the end when she strikes a pose told reporters last in the spotlight to be amazed in the spotlight and brings shade alternating vision and the sordid reality underscores the conclusion of Wilder). The conclusion with the teenager became famous in spite of herself at the expense of Suzanne eyeing on it behind the irony of Eve Mankiewicz. 
Providing Nicole Kidman also evokes that of Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard except that Swanson stay locked the star status she was while she freezes Suzanne Stone in the mask and ways to become the star she thinks. The scale is not the same, the prestige film of the golden age gave way to the ambition of the major television networks. This fascination for the small screen, Kidman gives a beautifully illustrated hollow. Suzanne Stone convinced of his good taste in every thing wears makeup just right too marked, chained ready-made phrases spiritual hand of cards in the magazine and shows constantly smiling mask concealing the most treacherous thoughts. It is the suburban, the provincial city of dreams and fancies than its more mundane surroundings. Van Sant continues his vision of American white trash and populated by misfits of all types (found also in Will Hunting, Elephant, Paranoid Park ) Kidman is worth little more than teenagers she interviewed . Among them a young Joachim Phoenix (and Casey Afflek) already brilliant teenager lost. 
Nicole Kidman gives a performance stunning femme fatale in the media obsessed, alternately sexy, psycho and a falsity constant, making it a complete mystery. All that we know of it is defined by its focus on his career but we will not know anything more about the origin of this motivation. In the first scenes Matt Dillon falls under the spell without any dialogue is exchanged between them, Kidman still representing a distant figure, sensual and posture always perfect. 
And that's what Suzanne Stone eventually throughout the film, a figure as remote and unreal as those icons that stars likes to watch on television, in permanent representation (and this screed that look after its grandiose first interview!). The role gained her a Golden Globe, serious things can finally start to the fabulous career that is known as the next year comes the magnificent Portrait of a Woman . Gus Van Sant for his proved intact acuity of his gaze in a studio and this time it may be preferred rather than returning "arty" in his later years. Released on DVD in region 2 French Studio Canal
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