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Belle de Jour (1967)

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Reviews Counted:35

Fresh:33

Rotten:2

Average Rating:8.6/10

Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: An exquisite tale of self-discovery and tragic passion, Luis Bunuel's 1967 BELLE DE JOUR is one of the crowning achievements of the director's brilliant career. Famous for giddily manipulating... An exquisite tale of self-discovery and tragic passion, Luis Bunuel's 1967 BELLE DE JOUR is one of the crowning achievements of the director's brilliant career. Famous for giddily manipulating audiences in order to make his point, Bunuel boldly blurs the line between fantasy and reality once again. It is this gleeful mischievousness that makes BELLE DE JOUR such a classic. Catherine Deneuve's performance reaffirms her status as one of world cinema's most electrifying actresses. Based on Joseph Kessel's 1928 novel, the film follows a recently married French housewife, Severine (Deneuve), as she is overcome by a wash of uncontainable erotic passions. After a brutal gang rape turns out to be mere fantasy, Severine finds herself in a nearby brothel acting out a series of sexual acts. At night, she returns home to her loving husband, Pierre (Jean Sorel), who is unaware of the double life that she is leading--or is she, really? [More]

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page, Michel Piccoli

Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page, Michel Piccoli, Macha Meril, Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clementi, Muni

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Luis Buñuel
Screenwriter: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Producer: Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim
Composer: Michel Magne

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Jan 22, 2002

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  • 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!
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    ...is a fascinating cinematic achievement that dares to connect Deneuve's porcelain beauty to a world of bourgeois rebellion.

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    04/12/09
    Cole Smithey
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    10/18/08
    Susan Tavernetti
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    Palo Alto Weekly

    One of the most acclaimed and accessible masterworks of surrealist cinema, an erotic meditaton about reality and fantasy that remains alluring and shocking decades after it was made, at least partly due to Catherine Deneuve's cool, mesmerizing performance

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    03/03/07
    Rob Mackie
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    Guardian [UK]

    A delicacy, a passionate and compassionate study of erotica.

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    08/03/06
    Philip Wuntch
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    It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best.

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    07/01/06
    Roger Ebert
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    Of all the supposedly challenging attractions playing locally in our supposedly more enlightened era, the most compellingly erotic and entertaining spectacle is still provided by Belle de Jour

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    04/19/06
    Andrew Sarris
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    This silly little masterpiece regards Deneuve as the goddess of light she really was -- a figment of our collective appetite for the unreal.

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    04/11/06
    Michael Atkinson
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    01/26/06
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    A surprisingly discreet film considering the erotic nature of the subject matter.

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    10/17/05
    Dennis Schwartz
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    Icy sketch of prostitute's life by one of film's greatest directors

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    12/17/04
    Daniel Eagan
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    01/06/04
    Michael Dequina
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    Oddly fascinating.

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    10/16/03
    Jurgen Fauth
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    A radical work that both looks back at the director’s own early surrealist cinema and anticipates the work of David Lynch.

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    09/09/03
    Ed Gonzalez
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    Slant Magazine

    Absolutely superb.

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    07/31/03
    Mark Robison
    Mark Robison
    Reno Gazette-Journal

    The use of dreams fused with reality works because the two things balance one another to create a whole, instead of detracting as a cop-out as most movies with this motif rely on.

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    07/10/03
    Greg Muskewitz
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    Every detail has been so carefully thought out that seeing it again is like seeing it in another key.

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    05/20/03
    Renata Adler
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    One of master director Luis Buñuel's most wry and elegant films.

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    03/23/03
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