Belle de Jour
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Movie Reviews of Belle de Jour
Movie Review: La Belle France et La Belle Deneuve
Summary: 5 Stars
Despite an impression of slight roughness in the presentation of this film and perhaps because of an understated quality, Belle De Jour makes an impact that lasts. The premise of the film - a housewife who decides to live out fantasies and add drama and adventure to her daily life by working as a prostitute during the day when her husband is at work - shot like a lightning bolt in people's consciousness when the film came out. Nowadays that idea, with so many articles in magazines, is not so shocking, but the film remains successful and fascinating partly because Deneuve's beauty and cool demeanor mesmerizes in ways that aren't fully explainable. The term Belle De Jour is a play on belle de nuit or femme de nuit. A flower whose beauty manifests during the day has obvious connotations.Translator's KissMovie Review: What's up with the chinese box ?
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is amazing . Only the fertile imagination of this innovative director could produce such artistic triumph .
Bunuel focuses his inquiring sight in the life of a boring marriage . He is a burgois gentilhomme and is married with a goddess (Catherine Deneuve).
And since the curiosity at last allows her to break the rules and become in a double life woman where she will experience something completely different .
The surrealistic mood and the spiral dreams remind us the inner and hidden demons which suddenly will appear without previous warning and will emerge with their unexpected wildness .
Masoquism , erotism and all a wide variety of erotic elements will run before your eyes .
The camera work is gorgeous and the script is overwhelming .
Superb,haunting and intense film .
Movie Review: Great movie but get the Region 2 DVD, it's worth it!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've seen both versions and although I have to watch my Region 2 DVD on my computer (all you need is to download a program like AnyDVD that allows you to watch other region DVDs), it's worth it. 16:9 anamorphic, great sound, clear picture and it's an anniversary edition with a booklet and a beautiful format. You can get it from Amazon UK. For those of you who aren't happy with the Region 1 version.
As for the movie itself, I just have to say I love Bunuel's dialogues. I have Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie as well and it follows along the same lines. Witty dialogue, very amusing how he manages to make the characters stand out but at the same time they're very comical and heavy topics are lightened up somewhat through the way he works around them.
Brilliant filmmaker. Absolutely brilliant.
Movie Review: Belle, ma petite betise
Summary: 5 Stars
I've watched this movie again and again. Its story is simple. Severine, a card-carrying French bourgeoise of the late 60's, is driven by a compulsion to the secret life of a prostitute. What ensues in her passage through this fantasy is a exotic mix of shame, of secrecy, of pain, and of pleasure. But things go wrong, and Severine must confront her "little obsession". The story culminates in her eventual unravelling and her ironic new found happiness.This movie is a psychodrama. Although its period dates the film somewhat., the theme is ever fresh and controversial. And for the American audience, it's disturbing. This is not Hollywood. At the same time it's not abstract. It's accessible and fiercely real. You cannot watch this movie and not ponder its theme long after the final credits.
Movie Review: sleep on and dream of love.......
Summary: 5 Stars
Is it fantasy or reality....only Luis Bunuel could have said for sure! Belle de Jour is a thoroughly engaging journey that lacks any definite explanation. We do get a sense that it has to do with a relationship that is failing, and the cause of the failure is the lack of initiative on the husband's part. The main character seems to be so frustrated, sexually, as to either (depending on your interpretation) become a prostitute or develop a fantasy of becoming one. There are so many symbolic and surrealist gestures in the film to twist your mind in so many directions - but in the end we somehow feel rewarded. I think this movie appeals to me for the same reason Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' appeals to me - it is like receiving a whiff of desire or obsession - it just sucks you in!