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Green star The Last Mistress

France, Italy, 2007 | 114 min. | Dir. Catherine Breillat

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The Last Mistress French provocatrice Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, Romance) takes a 19th-century novel about the affair between a Spanish courtesan and a Parisian libertine and reworks it into a fiercely intelligent revisionist bodice-ripper about addictive desire and high-society hypocrisy. Breillat’s previous films—cold, hard little objects—often suffocated under the weight of her theories about sexuality. But while patches of The Last Mistress sag with costume drama pomp, most of it is supple and entertaining. Breillat’s ace is her star, Asia Argento, who makes vampishness so dangerous, so emotional, that she seems like the original femme fatale. (The Last Mistress is scheduled to open in Seattle theaters on July 18.) By Jon Frosch

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