Une Vieille Maitresse (2007)

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Directer:Catherine Breillat   Producer:Jean-François Lepetit  Writter:Catherine Breillat Story:Jules-Amédée Barbey d''Aurevilly Cinematography:Giorgos Arvanitis
Editor:Pascale Chavance   Running time:110 min  Country:France, Italy  Language:French 
Genre:Drama, Romance  Subtitle: English/ä·Â
Starring:
Asia Argento ... Vellini
Fu''ad Ait Aattou ... Ryno de Marigny
Roxane Mesquida ... Hermangarde
Claude Sarraute ... La marquise de Flers
Yolande Moreau ... La comtesse d''Artelles
Michael Lonsdale ... Le vicomte de Prony

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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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If Fat Girl and Anatomy of Hell weren''t enough to convince you that Catherine Breillat is a Rohmer, then surely this commentary on upper class liaisons in pre-and/or-post revolutionary France will make you reconsider. With a few exceptions, Breillat''s venereal imagery is lessened, replaced now with the erotic dynamics of the costumed, and while this doesn''t hurt the film, I wonder if her true strengths as a director only come from her punk attitude toward mise en scène. Without it, her themes also hide behind costumes, which in this case are the impersonations of an earlier generation of filmmakers. However, Breillat manages to become a bit more playful in the process. Take for instance the shot above of an off-screen Asia Argento blowing a ring of smoke into the face of Fu’ad Ait Aattou. Maybe she''s blowing a kiss at him, maybe blowing her vagina at him. Knowing the source of smoke is the big-ass cigar in Argento''s mouth may influence one''s interpretation.

It''s interesting that 2007 gave us a parallel narrative across the Atlantic Ocean. Seasoned North American directors such as David Cronenberg, Sidney Lumet, and the Coen Brothers returned to crime dramas while the seasoned French such as Jacques Rivette, Eric Rohmer, and now Catherine Breillat returned to costume dramas. I wonder what it was that made so many directors join the conversation of conventional genres. Maybe it''s nothing, just a coincidence.