Fresh
A delicacy, a passionate and compassionate study of erotica.
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
Belle de Jour
Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!
1967 · 1h 41m · Approved
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Luis Buñuel
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Belle de Jour
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Luis Buñuel Director
- Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy
- Jean Sorel as Pierre Serizy
- Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson
- Geneviève Page as Madame Anais
- Pierre Clémenti as Marcel
- Françoise Fabian as Charlotte
- Macha Méril as Renée
- Muni as Pallas
- Maria Latour as Mathilde
- Claude Cerval as The Driver (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
This silly little masterpiece regards Deneuve as the goddess of light she really was -- a figment of our collective appetite for the unreal.
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Fresh
Every detail has been so carefully thought out that seeing it again is like seeing it in another key.
Renata Adler, New York Times
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