Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: The first time you see the courtesan called La Vellini, she's stretched out on a divan and wearing a smile, or perhaps a scowl. It's hard to tell with this woman, whose lips restlessly tremble and twist with rage and pleasure. She's dressed like the supine subject of Goya's painting "The Clothed Maja," which, like its sister image, "The Nude Maja," was condemned as indecent by the Spanish Inquisition. To look at the figure on screen writhing like a pampered cat is to understand why those paintings made some observers uneasy. "The Last Mistress" is unlikely to make anyone truly uneasy, because its deepest provocations - the casting of Asia Argento as La Vellini aside - occur at the level of narrative rather than through its style. Like all the unruly women who populate Catherine Breillat's films, La Vellini rubs hard against the grain. She's the fly in the ointment, the stick in the eye, and it's her howls, her spit and her fury that keep everything off kilter, disturbing the peace, its keepers and the narrative flow. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Cannes Film Festival, ...An Old Mistress ( Une vieille maîtresse ) ( The Last Mistress )
