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'Mistress' of all she surveyed

Directed by Catherine Breillat and starring the carnal incarnate Asia Argento, "The Last Mistress" is an absorbing, entertaining period drama that sets a passionate love affair against the backdrop of aristocratic Parisian society in the 1830s. This wealthy world is populated with pasty, corpulent, mannered types who revel in swift judgment, and the subject of their swift judgments is the imminent...

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