The Last Mistress

In this lush and sensual drama, a young dissolute man is set to marry a virtuous woman of French aristocracy, but secrets and rumors swirl around their upcoming union. A decade earlier, the story of his long-term affair with a beautiful kept woman from Malagan birth, La Vellini, sets in motion a complex web of love, loss, and betrayal that ultimately threatens to destroy him and those he loves most. Directed by Catherine Breillat and starring Asia Argento as the enigmatic La Vellini, this film is a nuanced exploration of the passions and desires that bind us together, even as they tear us apart.