Madness in a ménage à trois

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This romantic triangle involves an androgynous young dandy (Fu’ad Ait Aattou), his intended and virginal bride (Roxane Mesquida) and the longstanding and capricious Spanish mistress he can’t get out of his mind (Asia Argento). The dynamic is totally unlike Breillat’s previous, increasingly controversial movies: the sex is a bit perfunctory, but the talk is not.

Old French cadences swirl around as confidences and betrayals litter the plot, with Michel Lonsdale particularly good as a spiky old gossip. If love is close to madness, as it seems when the mistress furiously licks the wound of her lover after a duel with her English husband, the pitter-patter of aphorisms does occasionally suggest that it is also close to banality.

The Last Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse)
Cert: 15