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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Breillat’s film, this is an exquisitely tactile period study of desire disrupting social roles, with patient pacing and an unusually frank, emotionally attentive view of erotic attachment.
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Why this pick
A lush, ritualized chamber drama about a relationship shaped by power, fantasy and dependence; its formal beauty and shifting intimacies echo The Last Mistress’s sensuous unease.
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Why this pick
For the unsparing investigation of sexual control, humiliation and obsession beneath respectable surfaces. Haneke is colder than Breillat, but equally fearless about desire’s destructive contradictions.
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Why this pick
This Belle Époque affair turns erotic art-making and jealousy into a richly costumed triangle, sharing the decadent period textures and dangerous pull of transgressive love.
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Why this pick
Its talk-heavy, bruising love triangle examines romantic performance, sexual candor and emotional cruelty with the same refusal to make desire neat, noble or easily resolved.
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01 / THE STORY
In 1835 Paris, Ryno de Marigny (Fu'ad Aït Aattou), before getting married to the young and innocent Hermangarde (Roxanne Mesquida), makes a last visit to La Vellini (Asia Argento), his Spanish mistress, to bid goodbye in an act of lovemaking. His liaison with La Vellini is the subject of Parisian gossip, and before Hermangarde's grandmother gives her blessing, she wants to hear from Ryno everything about this relationship. Ryno reveals a tempestuous story but indicates that his ten-year romance is over; he now is in love with Hermangarde. After the marriage, the newlyweds move away to a castle at the seashore. They are happy and soon Hermangarde conceives. But the "last/old mistress" reappears, and while Ryno tries to keep her out of his life, she is not to be rejected, and Hermangarde finds out about it.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Vellini
Hermangarde
la Marquise de Flers
La comtesse d'Artelles
le vicomte Prony
Mme de Solcy
La comtesse de Mendoze
Mademoiselle Divine des Airelles
