Maîtresse
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Written by Barbet Schroeder and Paul Voujargol
France, 1975
Some films gain a reputation immediately but lose it over time. Case-in-point: The Blair Witch Project maintains its reputation as a trend-setter, but no longer evokes the same mystique and scares that its initial release and ingenious advertising campaign caused. Other films keep that reputation. Barbet Schroeder’s Maîtresse is one of those films.
Boasting an X rating, the devilishly ambiguous tagline, “She will open your eyes,” and a poster that intentionally crops out faces of an S&M scene, focusing instead on the bodies, Maîtresse still appears on “Most Controversial” film lists some 36 years later.
A young Gérard Depardieu plays Olivier, a simple, hulking thief recently released from prison. He and his partner Mario (André Rouyer) are interrupted in the midst of a bumbling job by Ariane (Bulle Ogier), an unassuming dominatrix. Olivier falls instantly in...
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Written by Barbet Schroeder and Paul Voujargol
France, 1975
Some films gain a reputation immediately but lose it over time. Case-in-point: The Blair Witch Project maintains its reputation as a trend-setter, but no longer evokes the same mystique and scares that its initial release and ingenious advertising campaign caused. Other films keep that reputation. Barbet Schroeder’s Maîtresse is one of those films.
Boasting an X rating, the devilishly ambiguous tagline, “She will open your eyes,” and a poster that intentionally crops out faces of an S&M scene, focusing instead on the bodies, Maîtresse still appears on “Most Controversial” film lists some 36 years later.
A young Gérard Depardieu plays Olivier, a simple, hulking thief recently released from prison. He and his partner Mario (André Rouyer) are interrupted in the midst of a bumbling job by Ariane (Bulle Ogier), an unassuming dominatrix. Olivier falls instantly in...
- 5/7/2011
- de Neal Dhand
- SoundOnSight
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