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Catherine Breillat A claustrophobic work argues that desire is a form of imprisonment No one familiar with the films of Catherine Breillat will be shocked to learn that her costume drama The Last Mistress, based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's 19th-century novel Une vieille maîtresse, is more of an out-of-costume drama. What is surprising, after her insufferably woolly studies of sexual power games (Romance, Sex is Comedy, Anatomy of Hell), is that the picture is a model of precision.
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Lock Up Your Darlings
Lock up your darlings
The Last Mistress (15)dir: Catherine BreillatA claustrophobic work argues that desire is a form of imprisonmentNo one familiar with the films of Catherine Breillat will be shocked to learn that her...See the full content of this document
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