Maitresse DVD+Blu-ray
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Film Details
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Produced in 1976
Main Language - French with English subtitles
Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film
Cast
Genres
Contemporary Comedy • Contemporary Blu-rays • European Film • French Film • Blu-ray • Comedy Blu-rays • Erotica / Blu-ray • Contemporary Erotica • World Cinema Erotica
Film Description
A stylish love story with a dark undertone, Maitresse sees a professional dominatrix (a leather-clad Bulle Ogier) indulge in a conventional romance on the ground floor, but satisfy more demanding clients in her 'dungeon'.
A wickedly funny fable on the foibles of sex and love, Barbet Schroeder's film saw genuine masochists take their place in the cast. A youthful Gérard Depardieu stars as Olivier, the young innocent who falls for the dominatrix when he breaks into an unassuming Parisian apartment, forcing him to question his assumptions about sex, perversion and power.
Only released at the time in a handful of club cinemas in 1981, this story of a Paris prostitute specialising in bondage and sado-masochism was refused a certificate by the BBFC on its original release. The film features graphic scenes of torture and fetishism which the Board described as 'miles in excess of anything we have ever passed in this field' in 1976. The film was cut by almost five minutes and finally awarded an X certificate. This fully uncut version was first passed in 2003 and is presented in a new High Definition transfer for the very first time.
Barbet Schroeder, who went on to make Barfly (1987), Reversal of Fortune (1990) and Single White Female (1992) in Hollywood, was aiming in Maitresse to achieve a wholly non-judgmental exploration of the more extreme side of human sexuality, to strip it of its association with fascism and oppression. He called on the services of a real Parisian dominatrix who supplied on-set advice and much of her own equipment and also used several of her actual clients in the scenes where Ariane imprisons, abuses and humiliates them.
DVD+Blu-ray Details
Certificate: 18
Publisher: BFI
Length: 108 mins
Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Region: 2
Cat No: BFIB1041
Format: DVD+Blu-ray Colour
DVD+Blu-ray Extras
- 2 discs
- Domestic Masochism: Barbet Schroeder’s Maîtresse (2012, 28 mins): Dr Patricia MacCormack and Edward Lamberti analyse key scenes from Maîtresse
- Theatrical trailers for Maîtresse, More (1969) and The Valley (1972)
- Illustrated booklet featuring a newly commissioned essay by Dr Patricia MacCormack, a new interview with Barbet Schroeder and an original review.
Community Reviews
by Barry Forshaw on 14th August 2003
Having lived under illiberal censorship laws for so long, it's still refreshing to encounter more evidence of the enlightened times we now (temporarily?) live in; such... Read on
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