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Belle de jour

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Belle toujours

Original title

Belle de jour

Year

1967

Running time

100 min.

Country

France

Director

Luis Buñuel

Screenwriter

Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière. Novel: Joseph Kessel

Cast

Music

Various

Cinematography

Sacha Vierny

Producer

Co-production France-Italy;

Paris Film Production, Robert et Raymond Hakim, Five Film

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

#41 Best French Movies of all time

Awards: 1967: Venice: Golden Lion

1968: BAFTA Awards: Nominated to Best Actress (Catherine Deneuve)

1968: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

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Critics' reviews

"'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."

Charles Champlin: Los Angeles Times
"Buñuel creates a secret theatre of erotic shame."

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian
"It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"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"

Rita Kempley: The Washington Post
"A wise, enormously enjoyable film about the power of fantasy -- a toast to the importance of dreams."

Edward Guthmann: SFGATE
"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."

Almar Haflidason: BBC
"A radical work that both looks back at the director's own early surrealist cinema and anticipates the work of David Lynch."

Ed Gonzalez: Slant

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47 My Favorite French Movies (69)
59 Most Memorable Erotic Movies (25)

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