Maîtresse (1975)
- 1975
- ·X
- ·112 min
A common thief (Depardieu) breaks into the house of a professional dominatrix (Ogier), and begins to help her train her clients.
Though this world is alien to his experience, he finds himself falling in love with her.
Eventually he discovers that she does this in order to support her son, and he attempts to help her out of this life, which she is not sure she really wants to leave.
- Actors
- André Rouyer·Bulle Ogier·Gérard Depardieu·Nathalie Keryan
- Directed by
- Barbet Schroeder
- Genre
- Drama·Romance
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Director
- Barbet Schroeder
An un-glamorous, non idealized or dramatized take on bdsm that gives centrality to the ritualization of the subversion of social roles, the sociological aspect of the practice. Depardieu's (naive?
In Maitresse, a petty criminal, Olivier (Gerard Depardieu), and his accomplice break into and attempt to rob a flat. The flat is, in fact, an S&M dungeon, and Olivier and friend are apprehended by the mistress, Ariane (Bulle Ogier), and her vicious-looking Doberman pinscher.
This review is for the uncut version of this film, complete with elderly gentleman having his member nailed to a piece of wood. It's obvious that for the more serious S&M scenes a body double was used for Bulle Ogier (the body double has hands that look about 20 years older than Ogier's and she was probably a professional dominatrix).
