The Last Mistress (2007)

aka: Une vieille maîtresse, An Old Mistress

Foreign / Drama

1 hr. 44 min.

Period romance set during 18th century France, about a notorious libertine who continues his longtime affair with a Spanish woman even after marrying a virtuous aristocrat.

Not Rated

Directed by: Catherine Breillat

Starring: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Anne Parillaud

Theatrical Release Date: 6/27/2008

Release Type: NY

U.S. Box Office: $785,037

Video/DVD Release Date: Not Yet Available

Distributor: IFC First Take

Country: France / Italy

Language: French

Offsite: IMDB

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	8	...a passionate and explicit film about sexual obsession...
Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips	8	An unusually intimate costume drama...
filmcritic.com Sean O'Connell	8	...presents not only one of the great performances of this year and the director's most accessible work to date...
New York Post V. A. Musetto	8	...the most overtly sensual film to come our way of late.
TV Guide Ken Fox	8	It's not only a period piece, the film is a relatively restrained exercise in sexual mores and manners from a director known for raw, extremely graphic depictions of sex and psychologies...
Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez	6	...great scenes deepen otherwise flat characters, and their adrenaline rush dignifies what is otherwise a rather predictable costume drama about l'amour fou and the difficulty a man has getting a dangerous woman out of his system.
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum	9	...artfully twists period-piece drama to suit her provocative modern notions about sex, gender roles, and power.
New York Times Manohla Dargis	9	...the story is cruel and enthralling.
Los Angeles Times Robert Abele	9	...an extreme cinematic pleasure, a well-told yarn of merciless desire.
LA Weekly J. Hoberman	8	...highly entertaining...
Village Voice J. Hoberman	8	...highly entertaining...
Onion AV Club Scott Tobias	8	...doesn't sink into the crude didacticism that mars some of Breillat's work.
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer	7	Scandalous...

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	8.0
AVERAGE USER RATING (0 ratings)	-