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01/26/06
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... [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page, Michel Piccoli
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Reviews for Belle de Jour
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03/26/09
Luis Buñuel creates an eminently classy film that is a splendid piece of escapism for the viewer. Central to this is Catherine Deneuve who oozes such sophisticated sexuality that one becomes utterly immersed in her potentially dangerous adventure.
01/01/00
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
04/19/06
Top Critica fascination in the brilliance of its knowing detail about sexual attraction/revulsion, about the subtleties of desire
01/01/00
They don't make movies this intelligent, funny, engaging and just plain good anymore.
01/01/00
Belle de Jour is a definitive statement on eroticism, and a deeply personal experience.
01/01/00
The result is a film that may be less shocking than it was in 1967, but is no less disturbing or mesmerizing.
01/01/00
A true classic worthy of its highest praises.
01/23/02
...is a fascinating cinematic achievement that dares to connect Deneuve's porcelain beauty to a world of bourgeois rebellion.
04/12/09
Icy sketch of prostitute's life by one of film's greatest directors
12/17/04
No review available.
02/04/03
A surprisingly discreet film considering the erotic nature of the subject matter.
10/17/05
I have seen few, if any, films that portray the inner struggles of a modern woman so honestly and beautifully.
06/10/02
A radical work that both looks back at the director’s own early surrealist cinema and anticipates the work of David Lynch.
09/09/03
A wise, enormously enjoyable film about the power of fantasy -- a toast to the importance of dreams.
06/18/02
Top CriticA quarter of a century after it was made and a decade after Bunuel's death, Belle de Jour continues to baffle and beguile. And seduce.
04/17/02
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
08/13/08
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.
07/10/03
Much of the film works because of the capable acting of Deneuve.
01/01/00
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