Maîtresse

"Barbet Schroeder is only interested in taboo subjects, illicit and marginal worlds" (Bulle Ogier). After drugs, utopia and dictatorship, Schroeder here looks at the foibles of masochism. The character played by Bulle Ogier plays out the most outrageous desires of her clients while living an apparently normal life. Just like her double-facetted apartment, one private, the other professional, Ariane is also double, torn between her love for Olivier and her the freedom of her profession. Dominatrix and lover, the balance is difficult to find. Barbet Schroeder explores the ambivalence, even duplicity, of characters who live normal lives while performing their craziest fantasies in the shadows.