Belle de Jour
by Luis Bu?uel
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Actor: Catherine Deneuve, Genevi?ve Page, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Cl?mentiDirector: Luis Bu?uel
Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny
Writer: Luis Bu?uel
Editor: Louisette Hautecoeur
Producer: Raymond Hakim
Producer: Robert Hakim
Writer: Jean-Claude Carri?re
Writer: Joseph Kessel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Belle de Jour
Movie Review: Belle de Jour
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie was very avante garde for it's time. There is no denying Catherine Deneuve's timeless beauty. The movie still has an edge to it that transcends 40 years. Quirky characters portray a passionate theme with guarded passionless expertise. This is a thought provoking film worthy of discussion on many levels. Cinematography and costuming are superlative.
Summary of Belle de Jour
Widely acclaimed as a motion picture masterpiece, BELLE DE JOUR is an erotically charged tale of deceit and desire! Beautiful Catherine Deneuve (INDOCHINE) stars as Severine, a perfect young housewife ... who leads a shocking double life. What her loving husband Pierre doesn't know is that by day she's a high-priced prostitute! But when the dangerous obsession of a customer forces her terrible secrets out into the open, Pierre must decide whether to reject her for what she has done ... or accept her for who she is! Now available on video for the first time, the stunning erotic intrigue of BELLE DE JOUR will both captivate and entertain!A young Paris housewife, S?verine, grows bored with her stable husband. When she learns of the presence of a high-class brothel in her neighborhood, she quietly goes to work there--but only during the day, until five o'clock in the afternoon. This sublime 1967 film is one of the latter-day masterpieces of the Spanish-born director Luis Bu?uel, whose career forms one of the greatest and boldest arcs in cinema. By the time of Belle de jour, Bu?uel had become almost completely deadpan in his style, which not only leaves the motivation of S?verine a mystery (despite a few flashbacks to degradations of her youth), but also casts the entire plot in doubt. An old surrealist from the 1920s (when his first classic, Un chien andalou, was made in collaboration with Salvador Dali), Bu?uel suggests that what we see may be real, or simply S?verine's imagination. Because he was the least pretentious of directors, Bu?uel keeps his material playful, wicked, yet cutting. As S?verine, the impossibly lovely Catherine Deneuve uses her cool demeanor to great effect--she never breaks her deadpan, either. In 1995, after having been out of official circulation for years, Belle de Jour was re-released in America and became an unexpected art-house hit. --Robert Horton
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