Belle De Jour
1967
Severine is married to a French doctor. She is unable to deal with his sexual advances so seeks work in a brothel. Based on a novel by Joseph Kessel. Read more
| Starring | Angela Molina, Catherine Deneuve, Franco Nero, Jean Sorel |
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| Director | Luis Bunuel |
| Genres | Drama |
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Belle De Jour
Severine is married to a French doctor. She is unable to deal with his sexual advances so seeks work in a brothel. Based on a novel by Joseph Kessel.
| Starring | Angela Molina, Catherine Deneuve, Franco Nero, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Carole Bouquet, Fernando Rey |
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| Director | Luis Bunuel |
| Studio | OPTIMUM RELEASING |
| Run time | Blu-ray: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: French Blu-ray: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 06 Sep 2004 Blu-ray: 28 Sep 2009 Production year: 1967 |
| Format | DVD |
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Luis Buñuel embarked on this picture convinced that it would be his last. However, the receipt of the Golden Lion at Venice and universal critical acclaim persuaded him to undertake five further features, each one being a masterpiece in its own right. Stunningly photographed by Sacha Vierny, this complex parable on social, sexual and emotional repression flits between dream and reality with such deft sleights of hand that we are never sure whether we are watching episodes from Catherine Deneuve's life or sharing her fantasies. Deneuve is utterly beguiling as the housewife who seeks escape in prostitution, but the director is the film's true star.
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Fascinating Buñuel mixture of fact and fantasy, impeccably woven into a rich fabric.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Ice cold fantasy
Superb and accessible Bunuel film about the secret life of an upper class Parisian newly-wed (Deneuve) when she takes on part time employment in an upmarket brothel.
The film includes a number of shifts from fantasy to reality (including the startling opening scene) but on the whole there are fewer surrealist devices than you might find in other Bunuel films. Lots of shots of feet, boots and shoes for example but they are all attached to their owners legs.
Deneuve is so icy cold - even when exploring her sexual fantasies - that it is impossible to empathise with her as 'heroine'. But like other Bunuel female leads ('chambermaid' for example) she is not victim or wrong-doer either.
She - like the rest of us - is a mixture of emotions, moral impulses and desires. What Bunuel does so masterfully is lift the lid on the semblance of normality and show us what lies beneath. -
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Ice cold fantasy
Superb and accessible Bunuel film about the secret life of an upper class Parisian newly-wed (Deneuve) when she takes on part time employment in an upmarket brothel.
The film includes a number of shifts from fantasy to reality (including the startling opening scene) but on the whole there are fewer surrealist devices than you might find in other Bunuel films. Lots of shots of feet, boots and shoes for example but they are all attached to their owners legs.
Deneuve is so icy cold - even when exploring her sexual fantasies - that it is impossible to empathise with her as 'heroine'. But like other Bunuel female leads ('chambermaid' for example) she is not victim or wrong-doer either.
She - like the rest of us - is a mixture of emotions, moral impulses and desires. What Bunuel does so masterfully is lift the lid on the semblance of normality and show us what lies beneath. -
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