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The Last Mistress Series: The 45th New York Film Festival [Sep 28 - Oct 14 2007] Director: Catherine Breillat, Country: France, Release: 2007, Runtime: 114 France’s foremost provocatrice, Catherine Breillat continues to surprise as she pursues her career-long interest in the ramifications of female desire. Breillat’s sumptuous adaptation of Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s Une vieille maîtresse may be set during the reign of Louis Philippe, but this dangerous liaison is recognizably modern. Disrupting cinematic as well as social conventions, Asia Argento gives another extraordinary performance in the title role as “a capricious flamenca who can outstare the sun.” A true star as well as a fine actress, Argento holds the screen with the force of her carnality, which may be precisely Breillat’s point. An IFC First Take release.

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