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Movie Overview
Cast
Asia Argento
Fu'ad Ait Aattou
Roxane Mesquida
Director
Catherine Breillat
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
The Last Mistress (2008)
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4/5
"The costumes are lavish but never get in the way of the characters, who are all fully fleshed out and given added verve from the excellent cast."
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
4/5
"even as this odd couple cuts its destructive path through the social order in a story that is essentially a tragedy, they come across as idealised revolutionaries rather than deluded victims of love."
Channel 4 Film
Anton Bitel
"What energises the film’s central section is the fact that Argento and Aattou make for a great couple."
european-films.net
Boyd van Hoeij
"French director and
provocatrice extraordinaire
Catherine Breillat is finally tamed by a partially stilted adaptation of an early 19th century literary classic."
european-films.net
Boyd van Hoeij
4/5
"Breillat's latest presents one of the great performances of this year and the director's most accessible work to date"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
C-
"Lush cinematic compositions, locations, and costumes compensate for some of the story's lacking impact, but not enough to recommend it as anything more than a guilty pleasure."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
B
"An elegant film about an irresistible hot romance."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
"This talky, heavy melodrama is pretty to look at, but behind it there is nothing of substance"
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
B
"A dispassionate autopsy of a passionate triangle, brilliantly devised if not always perfectly executed."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
3/5
"The adventures of a handsome libertine, his sexy Spanish mistress, and the beautiful young woman he is engaged to marry."
Spirituality and Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
2/4
"The sex, like almost everything else in
The Last Mistress
, is mechanical."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
2.5/5
"The characters ultimately feel more like pawns to be manipulated, rather than flesh-and-blood human beings who suffer and love, which gives the film’s message that the two are essentially one in the same a rather hollow ring."
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
"I can get partially behind any movie that commences with Michael Lonsdale greedily and noisily chomping into a moist leg of pheasant."
UGO
Keith Uhlich
2/5
"After
Anatomy of Hell
's tampon tea, any of
The Last Mistress
's transgressions will pale in comparison."
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
A-
"Breillat's most accessible film, but she does not compromise...Asia Argento eats the screen alive...It's an oversized performance, just on the verge of lunacy."
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
"Oh god, have I ever seen a more tedious 'erotic' movie than this one?"
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
4.5/5
"Argento delivers volumes in her vivid physical performance ... In Asia, it looks like the filmmaker [Breillat] has finally met her match."
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
4.5/5
"Here Breillat directs one of the most thrilling actresses working today, and the latter makes this calculated study into a tale brimming with passion and sorrow."
Film Threat
Matthew Sorrento
"
The Last Mistress
' fervent energy is derived from its titular mistress' explode-at-any-second volatility."
Cinematical
Nick Schager
5/5
"Not the kind of period piece that you normally get from Catherine Breillat."
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
B+
"This is an offbeat adaptation (by Breillat) of the controversial 19th century novel by Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly that benefit from its new millennium character, Vellini, played with gusto by Asia Argento."
Reeling Reviews
Robin Clifford
7/10
"Steamy, sumptuous and sensual, filled with post-feminist sexual politics. Think of a 19th century "Fatal Attraction" in French."
SSG Syndicate
Susan Granger
6/10
"Asia Argento is the lively center of a sometimes meandering tale of sexual intrigue."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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