An Oldie But Goodie: Maitresse

This is chair bondage, but it is NOT comfy chair bondage. You can't see it in this shot, but the girl's wrists are tied to the back of the chair, and of course her knees are tied wide apart. And of course, she's naked. That's how it's done!

The French film Maitresse is what I would call an offbeat romance released in 1975. Written and directed by acclaimed French director Barbet Schroeder, it starred Gerard Depardieu as a good-natured burglar who gets involved with a professional dominatrix (Bulle Ogier) after an unsuccessful attempt to burglarize her leaves him cuffed to her radiator.


Left to right: Bulle Ogier as the dominatrix, the Baron who is her servant, the apparent boyfriend of the naked submissive in the chair, and Gerard Depardieu doing the honors.

As Ogier's character is a dominatrix, most of the bondage is definitely femdom/malesub kinda stuff, but at the 38 minute mark there's the tasty femsub whipping scene I've made caps of, with the boyfriend sharing some hot kisses with his bound sub while Depardieu lays on.

What makes the scene stand out in my mind is the thoroughness with which the woman in the chair is bound. In the mainstream, even scenes that are all about the sexual bondage tend to feature feeble bondage scenes. This is NOT feeble stuff, perhaps because it's rumored that real-life French submissives played the submissives in the film (rumor even has it that they were not paid for their work, but rather paid for the chance to be in the film). And I did a quick scan of the scenes after the female bondage scene, it was all femdom/malesub stuff, so far as I could tell.

Along the same lines, there are supposed to be some scenes of torture that shocked audiences at the time (the movie is or was banned in Britain, not sure of the time frame) and that might be a product of using real-life subs as well. I haven't seen that section, as scenes involving torture squick me. Leave it for those who like it.

You can watch the entire film at Dailymotion.com, here's the URL, action starts at the 38 minute mark. Enjoy!