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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...is a fascinating cinematic achievement that dares to connect Deneuve's porcelain beauty to a world of bourgeois rebellion. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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A delicacy, a passionate and compassionate study of erotica. Full Review |
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It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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A surprisingly discreet film considering the erotic nature of the subject matter. Full Review |
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Icy sketch of prostitute's life by one of film's greatest directors
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Oddly fascinating. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Absolutely superb.
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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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Every detail has been so carefully thought out that seeing it again is like seeing it in another key. Full Review |
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One of master director Luis Buñuel's most wry and elegant films. Full Review |
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