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Belle de jour

1967

Luis Buñuel

Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Francisco Rabal ...

7.6

12,599

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
United States	Charles Champlin Los Angeles Times	"'Belle de Jour' is more interesting and provocative than the great run of pictures one ever sees. Buuel's handling of color is gorgeous. And the acting is impeccable."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Buñuel creates a secret theatre of erotic shame."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best."	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"The director may have been ahead of his time, but he displays no more compassion for his characters than a psycho killer shows for his victims"	NEU
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"A wise, enormously enjoyable film about the power of fantasy -- a toast to the importance of dreams."	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"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."	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"A radical work that both looks back at the director's own early surrealist cinema and anticipates the work of David Lynch."	POS

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