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The Last Mistress
(Theatrical Release, 2008)
Leading Role: Asia Argento
Director: Catherine Breillat
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Format: Theatrical Release
Jun 2008
Not Rated
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114 min.
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Movie Description
Controversial director Catherine Breillat (ROMANCE, FAT GIRL) delivers her most ambitious film yet with THE LAST MISTRESS. Adapted from the novel by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, the film is set in 19th-century France, when the world was a seemingly much more innocent place. Underneath the surface, however, lurk infidelities and other dark secrets. Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Ait Aattou) is about to marry the beautiful and sweet Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida). He is so devoted to her that he has decided to make a clean break from his ongoing affair with the tempestuous Vellini (Asia Argento). One day, Hermangarde's grandmother, the Comtesse d'Artelles (Yolande Moreau), convinces Ryno to tell of his affair with Vellini, which he does. By the end of his story, even she is concerned that he is in too deep with Vellini and that the couple's torrid romance will continue. Nonetheless, Ryno and Hermangarde get married, but Vellini's lure proves too strong a temptation.
Breillat's biggest production to date also feels like one of her most personal. While the film has a sedate façade, it is in keeping with the graphic work of her previous films. Argento is a perfect Vellini, at once carnal and terrifying but also sensual and alluring. The striking Ait Aattou, who makes his first screen appears, confirms Breillat's gift of getting the most out of non-actors. THE LAST MISTRESS is a lush period piece that nonetheless has a universal, modern message, and it makes many daring statements about love, lust, and romance., NEW YORK PREMIERE AT NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2007
THEATRICAL RELEASE TO BE DETERMINED
Two of cinema's most fascinating women--director Catherine Breillat and actress Asia Argento--team up for this lush drama set in 19th century France.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- "As the liaisons grow more dangerous, Breillat masterfully exposes seething undercurrents of jealousy and desire."
Total Film - Samuel Wigley (06/01/2008)
"Costumes and décors are sumptuous, dialogues exquisitely chiselled and delivered....Breillat punctures this serene and decorous surface with the shards of dangerous sexual desire."
Sight and Sound - Ginette Vincendeau (05/01/2008)
"[T]he story is cruel and enthralling....Like all of Ms. Breillat's films, it is also an emotional, often raw inquiry into troubling, caused desire."
New York Times - Manohla Dargis (06/27/2008)
"The Catherine Breillat-directed period piece is an extreme cinematic pleasure, a well-told yarn of merciless desire....[An] entertaining, elegantly shot adaptation of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th century novel..."
Los Angeles Times - Robert Abele (07/04/2008)
"[Breillat] artfully twists period-piece drama to suit her provocative modern notions about sex, gender roles, and power." -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (07/11/2008)
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