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Belle de Jour

R
Movie
1967
1h 41m
French
Drama, Romance
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Rating
WATCHMODE
7.7
IMDB
Belle de Jour (1967) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
90

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Catherine Deneuve
Séverine Serizy
Jean Sorel
Pierre Serizy
Michel Piccoli
Henri Husson
Genevive Page
Madame Anais
Muni
Pallas
Maria Latour
Mathilde
Claude Cerval
(uncredited)
Iska Khan
Asian client
Marcel Charvey
Prof. Henri
Francis Blanche
Monsieur Adolphe
Luis Buuel
Man in Gardencafe - Left from the D...
Marc Eyraud
Barman (uncredited)
Bernard Fresson
Le grele (uncredited)
Directed By: Luis Buñuel
Written By: Luis Buñuel (Screenplay), Jean-Claude Carrière (Screenplay)

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manicure says...
3 years ago
I am not sure how transgressive this peck on the lips compilation could have been in the late ‘60s, but I liked the idea behind the main character. The high-class brothel slice of life scenes are still interesting, even though I was expecting deeper psychological insights. Not a big fan of Marcel’s storyline and the conveniently ambiguous ending.
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ux21 says...
4 years ago
While this was really good, it is also a mild disappointment for me which probably comes down to personal taste. Aside from a few fantasy sequences and despite its - for a sixties movie - provocative subject matter, this is no doubt one of Buñuel’s more down-to-earth works. I very much prefer his films weird and confusing.
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Bronson87
8/10  2 years ago
I hate art films. Why? Because they suffer under the delusion that there are only two options: style or substance; pick one, both cannot exist. _Belle de Jour_ shows that a movie can be both. The movie is dripping with style. Every piece of this film is captivating: the camera work, the wardrobe, th More
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talisencrw
6 years ago
A wonderful parable of love, relationships and the place in both for fantasy and imagination. Certainly much more enjoyable to watch, not to mention better acted and directed, than recent delvings into that subject matter, like Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac (though that wasn't the latter's point). I More
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lwpcolonel
6 years ago
A blunt surprise insofar as the movies stark depictions of both a young woman's eccentric erotic fantasies alongside a rather harsh alternative lifestyle. In the middle there is a very conventional and ordinary real life tale of a married couple where the husband has no idea what's going on within h More
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