Synopsis
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
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Cast
- Asia ArgentoVellini
- Fu'ad Aït AattouRyno de Marigny
- Roxane MesquidaHermangarde
- Claude SarrauteLa marquise de Flers
- Yolande MoreauLa comtesse d'Artelles
- Michael Lonsdalele vicomte Prony
- Anne ParillaudMme de Solcy
- Amira CasarMademoiselle Divine des Airelles
- LioLa chanteuse
- Caroline DuceyLa dame de Pique
Recommendations
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Film Threat
Here Breillat directs one of the most thrilling actresses working today, and the latter makes this calculated study into a tale brimming with passion and sorrow. - 90
Village Voice
A highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly's mid-19th-century novel Une vieille maîtresse. - 90
The New York Times
What’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. - 90
Salon
This explicit movie about a sexually insatiable 19th century courtesan emerges like an erotic dream. - 88
New York Post
Beautifully composed, The Last Mistress, Breillat's 11th film, deals with the theme she has put forth in such previous work as "Romance" and "Fat Girl": how women deal with sexual desire. - 83
The A.V. Club
Given 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. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
Decorous to a fault, in the manner of middling Eric Rohmer talkfests, it's a film that could use some shaking up. - 70
Variety
Adapting 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.
