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The Last Mistress
Drama, Romance - 2007
6.3
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Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.

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Rated:
Unrated
Runtime:
114 min
Release date:
1 Jan 2007
Country:
IT, FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$6,000,000
Revenue:
$1,831,577
Awards:
2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
It's characteristic of the virtues and limitations of French sexual provocateur Catherine Breillat...that they usually derive from the same source--the fearless determination to skirt the borders of camp.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
1 Aug 2008
fresh:
[An] entertaining, elegantly shot adaptation of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th century novel.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Oct 2008
fresh:
It's devastating.
– Rafer Guzman,
Newsday,
18 Oct 2008
fresh:
Argento seizes each scene with both hands, adding surprising layers of feeling as she goes.
– Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Oct 2008
fresh:
The director Catherine Breillat's period adaptation of an 1851 novel by Barbey d'Aurevilly delivers sex and pain with style and conviction that render her familiar themes new again.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
1 Dec 2014
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