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  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary The Last Mistress marks the monumental pairing of cinema's premiere provocateur, director Catherine Breillat with the most fearless and explosive actor of our generation, Asia Argento. A penniless rogue, Ryno de Marigny, shocks 19th century France with his engagement to the virginal gem of the aristocracy, Hermangarde. As lurid speculati...

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, Catherine Breillat

  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 55 m

The Last Mistress

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
78
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary The Last Mistress marks the monumental pairing of cinema's premiere provocateur, director Catherine Breillat with the most fearless and explosive actor of our generation, Asia Argento. A penniless rogue, Ryno de Marigny, shocks 19th century France with his engagement to the virginal gem of the aristocracy, Hermangarde. As lurid speculati...

Directed By: Catherine Breillat

Written By: Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, Catherine Breillat

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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91
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.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
90
A highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly's mid-19th-century novel Une vieille maîtresse.
By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW
88
The picture's visual style is clean, exact and beautifully photographed by Yorgos Arvanitis.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
83
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.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
75
Lush. Debauched. Ravishing. And did I mention sexy?
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
60
Though Argento and Aattou lack the searing chemistry needed, the social politics are consistently intriguing, and everything - not to mention everyone -looks absolutely stunning.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Seems like very tame stuff, with little in the way of graphic sex and all the baggage of a run-of-the-mill art-house costume drama.
By William Arnold FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Flach Film, CB Films, France 3 Cinéma, StudioCanal, Buskin Film, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), TPS Star, La Région Île-de-France
Release Date Jun 27, 2008
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 1 Nomination

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