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Asia Argento as a wanton Spanish flamenca and Fu'ad Ait Aattou as an aristocratic French rake in "The Last Mistress." Cool, carnal, and lethal, "The Last Mistress" is a period drama with a difference.

"The Last Mistress," with Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Asia Argento, Roxane Mesquida. Written and directed by Catherine Breillat, based on Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's 1851 book "Une vieille maitresse." 114 minutes.

'They're one, lust and love,' says 32-year-old Italian-born actress and director Asia Argento , who plays the rapacious courtesan La Vellini in the new French film 'The Last Mistress,' opening Friday at ...

A sulfurous, sexual period piece, Catherine Breillat's "The Last Mistress" is, at first glance, both her most accessible and most carnal movie.

Capone & Dario Argento's MOTHER OF TEARS!! Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.

After years of lascivious experiments and audience-bludgeoning anti-romances, French provocateur Catherine Breillat pulls an unexpectedly engrossing and lurid film out of Jules-Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly's ...

Clearly, the big selling point for Olivier Assayas' Boarding Gate is the image of star Asia Argento in nothing but her black underwear and high heels holding a gun and crouching over a dead body.

Way back in 1977, groundbreaking Italian horror director Dario Argento unleashed Suspiria, a stylish, intense and brutal tale of witches in a German dance school that ended up on critics' lists of the best ...

"The Mother of Tears," the latest panic-inducing horror film from Dario Argento, stars an Italian siren who is one of her country's biggest film stars.

Much- admired biopic of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis. Sydney White Amanda Bynes, of What I Like About You, stars in a romantic comedy update of Snow White.

Rated: R Running time: 1:46 Director: Olivier Assayas Showing: Orchard It's hard to feel indifferent about an actor who pronounces the silent "b" in "numb" like a popping bubble. via Kitsapsun.com

"THE BANK JOB": The film is a respectable mix of fact and fiction inspired by the 1971 robbery of Lloyds Bank in London. via Inside Bay Area

“I didn't want a woman who was going to crumble apart in a deep depression but a combative protagonist. My meeting with Asia Argento was decisive . . . I immediately saw her as a passionate fighter.”

This Transylvania has nothing to do with Dracula, writes Stephanie Bunbury. TONY GATLIF is nearly 60 but he's still the wild man of filmmaking. via The Age

This year, it's Asia Argento 's festival, and we're all just invited. I've heard through the grapevine that Asia will not be in attendance at the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival , but her ... via Bay Guardian

Asia Argento performs her own preflight screening in Boarding Gate . Details: Boarding Gate opens Friday, April 25, at the Screenland, 1656 Washington, 816-421-9700. There's basically only one reason to see ... via The Pitch

I really enjoyed The Last Mistress, Catherine Breillat's filmed version of d'Aurevilly's novel. via FreakyTrigger

“Asian") imagery in mainstream US cinema. He draws commentary from a dazzling array of interviewees, including old-school "exotics”

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Heidi Atwal, Kimberly Chun, Michelle Devereaux, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, Johnny Ray Huston, Maria Komodore, Lynn Rapoport, Sara Schieron, Jason Shamai, ... via Bay Guardian

Dull, pointless and interminable, "Boarding Gate" is a serious misstep for writer-director Olivier Assayas . via STLtoday

Brittany Snow and Ming-Na star in this horror film directed by Nelson McCormick. via St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It's hard to feel indifferent about an actor who pronounces the silent "b" in numb like a popping bubble. via Alameda Times-Star