Emmanuelle Béart

Hell

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Paul holds Nelly close

Strangely enough there are two films called Hell starring Emmanuelle Béart. This one is from 1994 and is directed by Claude Chabrol. The other (which also goes by L’enfer in the original French) is directed by Danis Tanovic. None too shabby, either of them. More strangely, both films are other directors’ movies. Tanovic took on the second of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Heaven, Hell and Purgatory trilogy after the director died. As for Chabrol, he was completing the film that Henri-Georges Clouzot started in 1964 with Serge Reggiani and Romy Schneider in the leads, which Clouzot abandoned when he got ill (he got better but never went back to it. You can see his footage … Read more

My Mistress

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Maggie

My Mistress is the story of a bored, horny teenage lad and the dominatrix he hooks up with, to the ultimate satisfaction of neither. Imagine inserting a character clad entirely in wetlook PVC into the Australian TV show Neighbours and you’re most of the way there. Handsome young Charlie comes home from school one day to find his dad has hanged himself in the family garage. Mum was having an affair with dad’s best friend, it turns out, though why exactly dad did the deed we never quite find out. The funeral comes and goes. Charlie is wracked with grief but not so wracked that he hasn’t by this point noticed sexy older … Read more