Product Details

• Actors: Bulle Ogier, Gerard Depardieu
• Directors: Barbet Schroeder
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000R20AA6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,016 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

For a change, the Gerard Depardieu whom we meet in Maitresse is relatively normal; it is the world around him which has gone slightly mad. Olivier(Depardieu)is a restless young man searching for a new job. After unsuccessfully selling magazine subscriptions, he and his partner resort to burglary. What they thought was a wealthy landlady's apartment turns out to be the studio of a dominatrix named Ariane. Caught, Olivier is instantly drawn to Ariane's atypical demeanor. Her life is a literal dichotomy of Bourgeois 'normalcy' upstairs, and the anonymous leather-clad world of fetish play located downstairs. Likewise, their relationship takes on a similar pattern of development. However, Olivier cannot seem to reconcile his role as Ariane's lover with his ambivalent concern over the way she earns a living. It includes many depictions of the trade plied by Ariane.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The very classy and erotic Maitresse, January 10, 2010

By 

Laurence L. Smith "Book author and Psychologist" (Evanston, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Maitresse - Import (DVD)

This is a sensational movie that is done in a very classy style, yet is very bold in its depiction of various S & M experiences. Bulle Ogier is perfectly cast in the role of the petite but sexually powerful domanatrix. There is also some black humor in

this movie. In some acts a real domanatrix doubled for the actress ogier.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Burnt-in subtitles! / image cropped, November 28, 2011

By 

mickey_one (Cologne, Allemagne) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maitresse - Import (DVD)

NB: This DVD release has burnt-in subtitles!

Film: 6.5/10

Picture quality: 7.5/10

Aspect ratio: 1.78:1 (orig.: 1.85:1)

Run time PAL 50 Hz: 1:48'07" (1:46'08" w/o credit roll)

Audio: F

ST: GB, burnt-in

RC 2 (Europe)

Studio: BFI (British Film Institute)

Unlike many other releases from BFI (e.g. picture-wise stunning BD releases of "Red Desert", "Playtime", "Deep End", "Privilege", "Separation", "Joanna" or Kenneth Anger's "Magick Lantern Cycle" (and many others) I found this a little disappointing.