Maîtresse
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Directed by Barbet Schroeder.
With Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer.
France, 1973, 35mm, color, 112 min.
French with English subtitles.
With Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer.
France, 1973, 35mm, color, 112 min.
French with English subtitles.
A provincial young man develops a relationship with a professional maîtresse (or dominatrix) after being implicated in the burglary of her apartment. At ground level, everything seems legitimate but in a dungeon below the stairs, the maîtresse fulfills all the desires of her punishment-seeking clientele. Barbet Schroeder’s classic of taboo love graphically depicts the politics of sexual bondage and sits well alongside the masochistic undertones of Last Tango in Paris.
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