The Last Mistress (Une vieille maitresse) Reviews
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Breillat, the flamethrower who made "Romance" and "Fat Girl," artfully twists period-piece drama to suit her provocative modern notions about sex, gender roles, and power.
Read the full reviewThe Catherine Breillat-directed period piece is an extreme cinematic pleasure, a well-told yarn of merciless desire.
Read the full reviewWhat?s explicit here is ravenous passion and the depiction of desire as a creating, destroying force that invades the very flesh. It's terribly French.
Read the full reviewA passionate and explicit film about sexual obsession.
Read the full reviewGiven their reputations as feminist provocateurs, the coming together of Breillat and Argento seems natural, even inevitable, and The Last Mistress gets a charge from their feisty, uncompromising spirit.
Read the full reviewCool, carnal, and lethal, The Last Mistress is a period drama with a difference.
Read the full reviewBreillat is inviting us to really look at sex as it occurs in life, and to engage with it mentally, as a driving mystery of human existence.
Read the full reviewAdapting a book by semi-notorious novelist and critic Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-89), Breillat freely stamps her strong and singular feminine insights on a man's material.
Read the full reviewArgento and Aattou deliver appropriately outsize performances to fit the movie's sense of extravagant escapism, and Claude Sarraute delivers a slyly witty performance as the elderly lady carried away by Ryno's Scheherazade-like tale.
Read the full reviewPerhaps it's the lack of sex or perhaps it's the incessant, banal chattering of the characters, but this movie is more likely to inspire sleep than interest. Breillat has done something I never expected from her: made a boring film.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 78
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