My
Mistress (2014/Film Movement DVD)
Picture:
B Sound: C Extras: C Main Program: C+
After
16-year-old Charlie (Harrison Gilbertson) catches his mother is
having an affair with his father's best friend (and his father
commits suicide because of it), Charlie is not having a good day. He
then meets and turns to the mysterious woman who lives down the
street from him, Maggie (Emmanuelle Beart) who offers him a
way/outlet to express his pain ...a way to turn his pain into
pleasure. As Maggie show him the sensual world of dominatrix and
BDSM, their relationship gets closer, but what are they? Friends?
Lovers? Dominance and Submissive?
In
Stephen Lance's My Mistress (2014), Charlie is angry at his
drunk, unfaithful mother and blames her for the death of his father.
He meets his mysterious (and much older) neighbor and discovers she
is a Dominatrix for customers with unique fetishes and fantasies. He
soon finds himself admiring, even attracted to Maggie and she become
his surrogate mother/lover. He seeks to understand, experience and
learn how to turn pain in to pleasure, but Maggie herself is damaged
goods and has secret, after nearly losing her son in a car accident
while being high on drugs, she longs and loves her son, but hates and
doesn't trust herself to be with her son on her own. Charlie then
become alike a surrogate son to Maggie and he endears himself to her
when he tells her he loves her, needs her and doesn't care what her
past is. Together, they explore the boundaries of their
relationship.
Mr.
Grey from Fifty Shades of Grey would of loved these two
characters. It shows the world of BDSM (why is it, it is the rich
people who get into BDSM?) between a young angry boy and a
traumatized woman who is old enough to be his mother, they help each
other (literally) lick their wounds in their hearts and bodies.
The
anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image looks good because of its
simplicity making it through the format well enough, but the lossy
Dolby Digital sound is very dialogue-based and quiet often, so only
expect so much. Extras include making of the film, interviews and
trailers.
-
Ricky Chiang
