Belle de Jour
1 9 6 7 (France/Italy)
Séverine, a beautiful but frigid young
housewife loves her doctor 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.
The movie starts off by showing a lengthy
and rather disturbing example of one of these fantasies, in which Séverine
is pulled from her carriage by the two drivers after her lukewarm
response to her fiancée's marriage proposal, and then tied to a tree
and beaten and raped. A scene this strange and disturbing this early
in the movie immediately presents her as an unsatisfied woman
searching for fulfillment outside of her marriage.

Eventually she becomes a prostitute,
working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her
marriage. Considered by many to be Buñuel's greatest work, Belle
de Jour is a prime example of Buñuel's affection for the
juxtaposition of realism and surrealism. An erotic and cinematic
masterpiece.

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Séverine Serizy
Catherine Deneuve
Pierre Serizy
Jean Sorel
Henri Husson
Michel Piccoli
Madame Anais
Geneviève Page
Marcel
Pierre Clémenti
Charlotte
Françoise Fabian
Renee
Macha Méril
Mathilde
Maria Latour
Prof. Henri
Marcel Charvey
Director
Luis Buñuel


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