Ms Kathleen's Movie Review

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Maitresse (1976)

Directed by:

Barbet Schroeder

Cast:

Gérard Depardieu

Bulle Ogier

Andre Rouyer

Tony Taffin

Holger Loewendaler

Runtime: 112 min

Country: French with subtitles in English

Format: Color

The movie begins with the arrival of its main character Olivier as he enters the big city of Paris. Down on his luck he quickly finds a friend and reverts back to his old ways of burglarizing respectable people’s homes. Only this time Olivier is in for a shock as the home he picks to rob turns out to be the home of a Dominatrix女支配者 — a dominant woman.

Armed with flashlight in hand he swiftly moves about the dungeon stumbling upon items such as a hangman’s noose, coffin, wooden cross, suspension equipment and a medical laboratory. But what really alarms Olivier is when he finds a cage with a human being inside. He quickly attempts a getaway only to be greeted by a Doberman bearing his teeth and growling loudly.

And then we are introduced to our other main character, Arian, a petite娇小 — small, in French but powerful dominatrix女支配者 — a dominant woman for hire whose upstairs world remotely resembles her downstairs world. Arian comes on the scene very mightily as the room fills with light and she descends the stairs coming down from the ceiling.