Last Mistress, The France / Italy
2007, 114min.
Prod.: Jean-François Lepetit, Script: Catherine Breillat (based on a novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly), Dir.: Catherine Breillat, Dir. of Phot.: Giorgos Arvanitis, Prod. Design: François-Renaud Labarthe, Sound: Yves Lévêque, Yves Osmu, Edit.: Pascale Chavance .
Cast: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Anne Parillaud, Jean-Philippe Tesse, Sarah Pratt, Amira Casar.
Secrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and virtuous woman of the French aristocracy.
Production Companies
Flach Film
CB Films (co-production)
France 3 Cinéma (co-production)
Studio Canal (co-production)
Buskin Film (co-production)
Canal+ (participation)
Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
TPS Star (participation)
Région Ile-de-France (support)
| Breillat, Catherine  Catherine Breillat was born July 13, 1948, Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France). At 17 Breillat wrote her first novel L´homme Facile that brought her renown owing to the open reflections on issues of sex in it. Between 1968 and 1975 she published three more novels and a play and also managed to star in a small role in Bernardo Bertolucci’s scandalous Last Tango in Paris.
In 1975 Catherine Breillat appeared as a director, screenwriter and art director for Real Girl – a film based on one of her novels. However, due to financial problems of the producers as well as a controversial response, the film was released only in 2000. Later writing two more scenarios and participating in a film, Breillat once again took up the role of a director in 1979.
The topic and the open scenes of the film received a harsh response of the press, but also proved a big commercial success to it. Simultaneously, Breillat continued writing screenplays (including ones for Federico Fellini and Maurice Pialat).
Catherine Breillat gained wide international renown by the film Romance in 1999 that received acclaim in the press internationally affirming Breillat as one of the outstanding figures of the contemporary French filmmaking.
In 2007 Catherine Breillat was invited to join the jury of the Cannes Film Festival. She was also a member of the jury at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
Filmography
Junior Size 36 (36 fillette, 1988), Dirty Like an Angel (Sale comme un ange, 1991), À propos de Nice, la suite (segment "Aux Niçois qui mal y pensent",1995), Perfect Love (Parfait amour! 1996), Romance (Romance, 1999), For My Sister (À ma soeur! 2001), Brief Crossing (Brève traverse, 2001), Sex Is Comedy (2002), Anatomy of Hell (Anatomie de l'enfer, 2004), An Old Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse, 2007), Barbe bleue (2008) (in production)
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