Breillat's latest presents one of the great performances of this year and the director's most accessible work to date
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06/26/08
The Last Mistress (2008)
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Reviews Counted:91
Fresh:68
Rotten:23
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: More complicated than your average bodice ripper, Catherine Breillat's Last Mistress features beautiful costumes, wrought romances, and a feral performance from Argento.
Theatrical Release:Jun 27, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $621,567
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute
Director: Catherine Breillat
Reviews for The Last Mistress
A perfect showcase for Argento's carnal charms.
06/26/08
It captures the absurd dimensions of romance with immediacy and unexpected compassion.
06/26/08
With small talk fueling this French Provincial porn more than the dull sex, you may be reading this movie and its subtitles, more than watching it. And while it's not clear why she's The Last Mistress, this babe could be The First Stalker.
06/25/08
Self -indulgent sexaholism as a pre-feminist mantra and mandate.
06/25/08
Breillat can’t make up for Argento’s shallowness, and her own political imprudence gets in the way of her romanticism.
06/25/08
Highly entertaining.
06/25/08
Top CriticFrench director and provocatrice extraordinaire Catherine Breillat is finally tamed by a partially stilted adaptation of an early 19th century literary classic.
06/25/08
There are far too many ludicrous, overwrought sex scenes. [...] The Last Mistress is nothing but pure, laughable melodrama.
06/24/08
Breillat has recreated an entire lost world of French manners and mores, which, while being almost terrifyingly intimate, also possesses a near-epic sweep.
06/23/08
Argento delivers volumes in her vivid physical performance ... In Asia, it looks like the filmmaker [Breillat] has finally met her match.
06/21/08
With small talk fueling this French Provincial porn more than the dull sex, you may be reading this movie and its subtitles, more than watching it. And while it's not clear why she's The Last Mistress, this babe could be The First Stalker.
06/15/08
Considered by the director to be her favorite picture, we don't wonder why: it's accessible with chemistry between two lovers that could burn up the seats in the cineplex.
06/11/08
Believe it or not, Breillat paints a vivid and affecting portrait of this unhealthy, irresistible sexual obsession.
06/07/08
Neither a good French period drama nor effective pornography, this is a real disappointment.
04/28/08
A lush and lavish love triangle that has Asia Argento at its tip.
04/15/08
As the liaisons grow more dangerous, Breillat masterfully exposes seething undercurrents of jealousy and desire.
04/11/08
Like all Breillat's films it's obsessed with sex, power and gender, its protagonists reduced to tragedy as they desperately wield their weapons of seduction.
04/11/08
Visually, the film is an uninteresting as the similarly dour Don’t Touch the Axe, and now Breillat’s health is failing it may be time she hung-up her viewfinder.
04/11/08
Swiftly and deftly immersing us in the fashions – not just the clothes and decor, but also the changing sexual and social ethics – of the 1830s, Breillat’s meticulous, eloquent script and direction succeed in relating a consistently engrossing story.
04/11/08
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