Belle de jour
- Original title
- Belle de jour
- Year
- 1967
- Running time
- 100 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Catherine Deneuve
- Jean Sorel
- Michel Piccoli
- Francisco Rabal
- Pierre Clémenti
- Macha Méril
- Françoise Fabian
- Maria Latour
- Geneviève Page
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- Music
Various- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production France-Italy;
- Genre
- Drama | Prostitution
- Synopsis
- Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.
- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1967: Venice: Golden Lion1968: BAFTA Awards: Nominated to Best Actress (Catherine Deneuve)1968: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Foreign Film1968: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Supporting Actress.
- Critics' reviews
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"A wise, enormously enjoyable film about the power of fantasy -- a toast to the importance of dreams."
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"A splendid piece of escapism for the viewer. Central to this is Catherine Deneuve who oozes such sophisticated sexuality that one becomes utterly immersed in her potentially dangerous adventure."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 47 My Favorite French Movies (69)
- 59 Most Memorable Erotic Movies (25)
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