A dominatrix falls in love with a burglar in a you have to see it to believe it story about the world of sado-masochistic torture and bondage.
The film stars Gerald Depardieu as the thief and the director Barbet Schroder's wife, Bulle Ogier in an incredible performance that matches the crazy bondage outfits she wears throughout the film.
This is not some cheap exploitation film. Maitresse is a carefully made examination of an extreme lifestyle and in particular a woman who seems perfectly normal and respectable, apart from her habit of feeding flies to her Venus Flytrap and abusing men and women in her chic torture chamber below her apartment.
Probably the high point of the film is an extended bondage session where Ariane does her stuff in a variety of ways to a group of people. The S&M sequences were graphic enough for me and I could have probably done without the male genital torture scene.
Did I mention this is also a black comedy along with being a love story?
Fascinating if disturbing stuff.
112 minutes.
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Do you know where/how can I watch this with English subtitles? It seems like an interesting film but I'm having lots of difficulty finding a copy.
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