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The Last Mistress [2007] [DVD]

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Actors: Asia Argento, Roxanne Mesquida
Directors: Catherine Breillat
Format: PAL
Language French
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Artificial Eye
DVD Release Date: 25 Aug 2008
Run Time: 102 minutes

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

ASIN: B0019GJ4K6
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11,008 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)
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Two of cinema's most thrilling and dynamic female talents - the provocative Asia Argento and the controversial director Catherine Breillat - join forces in this audacious and sexually-charged tale of lust and seduction. Argento gives an electrifying performance as Vellini, the beautiful and headstrong mistress of Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Aït Aattou), an aristocrat who has just taken the young and innocent Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida) as his bride. Lacking the emotional connection and carna passion in his marriage that he shared with Vellini, Ryno attempts to resist temptation bu eventually succumbs to desire, rekindling the illicit affair with tragic consequences

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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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Torrid tale, beautifully filmed, 22 Nov 2008

By	Bluebell (UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

The film explores a gamut of emotions: high-octane obsessive love, furious jealousy and miserable feelings of rejection experienced by a man, his mistress and new wife. The structure of the story is as a retrospective narrative by the man told to his rather cynical new grandmother-in-law on the eve of his wedding. The film deftly balances explosive emotional scenes, erotic love-making and quiet, reflective interludes. There is an aura of decadence about the film enhanced by ravishing, elaborate costumes, and ornate interiors. It's a beautiful film to look at and the acting is very good with a super-charged performance by Asia Argentino as the Spanish mistress.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding erotic historical drama, 7 Jan 2009

By	pointone (Bournemouth UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

A fine adapatation of the 1851 novel by Jules Am�d�e Barbey d'Aurevilly a writer specializing in hidden motivation and evil and an influence on Henry James and Marcel Proust.

The long dialogue between Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Ait Aattou) - a first role for an extraordinary androgynous looking boyish actor - and his future wife's grandmother the Comtesse d'Artelles is highly evocative of Proust, as are the friendships between the Comtesse and Madame de Solcy (Anne Parillaud) and the Viscomte de Prony (Michael Lonsdale).

Rynos's tormented long standing destructive affair with Vellini (Asia Argento) provides the erotic element, and Argento is outstanding in her role.

The action could do with a little bit more show (but certainly not on the erotic front) and less tell, but this is probably due to the original novel from which it derives.

The costumes are sumptuous and are superbly filmed with exceptionally clear mainly shadow free front lighting, a visual pleasure.

For all fans of the director Catherine Briellat (her 2001 film Brief Crossing is one of my favourites) and of highly charged historical romances.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Torn between two lovers, 16 Nov 2008

By	L. Davidson (Belfast, N.Ireland) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

"The Last Mistress" is a not uninteresting , but a little unconvincing French film about a young Parisian nobleman in the 1830's who has difficulties in choosing between his demure,attactive young bride and his tempestuous, saucy ex. The film charts his relationship with the haughty, raunchy Spanish wench through a pre wedding conversation the young man has with his bride's grandmother. He certainly found excitement and thrills with her, getting involved in a duel with her erstwhile husband and losing a young daughter to a scorpion bite while living in Algeria for instance. They split up but are drawn together again by a sort of fate,a "force de nature", that even marriage to a beautiful sweet-natured young girl cannot withstand. "The Last Mistress" is a well made period drama that will probably be best remembered for it's, er, realistic sex scenes,a phenomenon also displayed in one of the director's earlier films "A Ma Soeur" ,where the actors really looked to be indulging in a genuine bit of "Ugandan activity".

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