French director Catherine Breillat kept the conversation going with IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring at a downtown Toronto restaurant earlier this week. Her film, "Une vieille maitresse" (The Last Mistress) took eight months to shoot and cost as much as all of her other films combined according to the TIFF catalog. Based on the novel of the same name by Jules Barbey, the film centers on Vellini (Asia Argento) who tries to intervene in her lover's attempts to marry a pillar of the French aristocracy. The film screened in TIFF's Contemporary World Cinema section.