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...Mistress. Novelist and filmmaker Catherine Breillat became notorious with four movies - Romance, Fat Girl, Sex Is Comedy and Anatomy of Hell - that put young women in states of bondage or virginal peril without making them seem victims, and with an attention to sexual realism that verged on hard-core. Breillat suffered a cerebral hemmorage a while back; that hasn't stopped her career but it has slightly softened her tone. An Old Mistress, based on a 19th century novel by Jules-Am?d?e Barbey d'Aurevilly, is the director's first period film; she wants to see what's under those...
...Ryno de Marigny (newcomer Fu'ad Ait Aattou) is a famous reprobate who's about to marry the innocent aristocrat Hermangarde (Roxane Mesquida) but, reputedly, hasn't shaken off the allure of his Spanish mistress Vellini (Asia Argento). The film is mostly a flashback relating their affair. Like many movies once upon a time, and few today, An Old Mistress approaches romantic passion with a voluptuous seriousness. The Cannes audience giggled at some of the more intense scenes - as when Ryno has a bullet removed from his chest and Vellini avidly licks the wound. To each his own eroticism...
...Admittedly, you might have more fun at The Valet, a deft, daft, totally unbelievable yet somehow totally engaging comedy, in which a rich guy (Daniel Auteuil) tries to fool his wife into believing that his drop-dead, supermodel mistress (Elena Simonsen) is really in love with Fran&ecedil;ois (Gad Elmaleh) a not too smart parking boy at a posh restaurant. It's totally preposterous, but everyone is really rather reasonable, patient and lovable in an idiotic situation. Tales like this used to be known as boulevard comedies and, you have to say, Paris has the boulevards to sustain them...
...important concepts like animal homosexuality, as explored in the true story of two male penguins that mated for life and raised a chick in the New York Central Park Zoo. And yet, personal comfort may still be the biggest draw to the books of our youth. On her blog, Mistress Matisse, a Seattle-based professional dominatrix, professes her love for the “Anne of Green Gables” series “in which no one cursed, vomited, or had a thought about anything below their waist, ever, ever, ever.” No matter how far away...
...Chavéz writes. "Some say he was killed in the plane crash. Some say the left side of his face was mutilated and that he now lives in hiding (age 87) in the Sierra Nevadas. Some say he was having an affair with the President of Mexico's mistress and the Mexican mafia was after him and he had to go into hiding. ... I just heard from a friend in El Paso that she knows someone with impeccable credentials who has testified for sure that Pedro did not die on that plane! And not only that, but her friend...