The Catherine Breillat-directed period piece is an extreme cinematic pleasure, a well-told yarn of merciless desire
di Robert Abele The Los Angeles Times
The heaving bosom, the siren glare and the fated embrace have been reclaimed with thrilling sensuality in Catherine Breillat's "The Last Mistress," the French filmmaker's bid to put aside the extreme sex of her most notorious work ("Romance," "Anatomy of Hell") and indulge instead in the extreme cinematic pleasures of a well-told yarn of merciless desire.
Not that there isn't flesh to behold in Breillat's entertaining, elegantly shot adaptation of Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th century novel, about a cash-strapped young libertine named Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Aït Aattou) who wishes to leave his fiery Spanish-Italian lover of 10 years, La Vellini ( Asia Argento), for a society-compatible marriage to mousy virgin princess Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida). [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (2591 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 4 luglio 2008
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