{"id":7006,"date":"2011-12-07T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2011-12-07T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T00:15:03","slug":"the-last-mistress-2007-catherine-breillat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7006","title":{"rendered":"The Last Mistress (2007, Catherine Breillat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a controversial-in-1851 novel which was apparently filmed before in 1975, though IMDB has little to say about that version.  Opens in 1835 Paris, great viscount Michael Lonsdale is visiting sex queen Senora Vellini (Asia Argento playing Spanish, the best work I&#8217;ve seen from her) when he spies young Ryno de Marigny.  Ryno (a large-lipped newcomer) has been seeing her for many years, but swears this was the last time, on the eve of his marriage to lovely, upright Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida, older sister of the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4000\">Fat Girl<\/a><\/em>, lately in <em>Rubber<\/em> and <em>Kaboom<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Ryno moves in with his wife, her gramma and gramma&#8217;s friend Yolande Moreau (of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2668\">Amelie<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4877\">Micmacs<\/a><\/em>) and all is well.  But Hermangarde doesn&#8217;t know the depths of her hubby&#8217;s relationship with Vellini.  They were extremely in love\/lust, ran away to Algeria and had a daughter together who died from a scorpion sting (shot in a very classy way, painful without being graphic), and since then they&#8217;ve had an obsessive love\/hate thing.  So after Ryno moves his family to the distant seaside, Vellini shows up and eventually wins him back.  Lonsdale gets the final word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a controversial-in-1851 novel which was apparently filmed before in 1975, though IMDB has little to say about that version. Opens in 1835 Paris, great viscount Michael Lonsdale is visiting sex queen Senora Vellini (Asia Argento playing Spanish, the best work I&#8217;ve seen from her) when he spies young Ryno de Marigny. Ryno (a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1432,1028,34],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-asia-argento","tag-catherine-breillat","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7063,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions\/7063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}