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Director: Barbet Schroeder
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Schroeder's classic of underground love sits well alongside the masochistic undertones of Last Tango in Paris. Ogier is the professional maîtresse (or dominatrix) who conducts a straight romance with Depardieu at ground level, but has a dungeon below stairs where she entertains her compliant clients. The trick, of course, is that overground comes to mirror underground, but the whole thing is lent more than a little frisson from the knowledge that some of those clients were real. A wickedly funny fable on the more demanding side of love. CPea.Author: CPea
Cast & crew
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Producer: Pierre Andrieux
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, André Rouyer, Nathalie Kéryan, Roland Bertin, Tony Taffin, Holger Löwenadler full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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