Belle de jour
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| Belle de jour | |
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 Belle de jour movie poster |
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| Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
| Produced by | Henri Baum Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim |
| Written by | Luis Buñuel Jean-Claude Carrière Joseph Kessel |
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve Jean Sorel Michel Piccoli Geneviève Page |
| Release date(s) |  May 24, 1967 10 April 1968 |
| Running time | 101 min |
| Language | French |
| IMDb profile | |
Belle de jour is a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve. The film was directed by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel. It is based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel.
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[edit] Plot
Séverine Serizy is a young, beautiful Paris housewife who has masochistic daydream fantasies about elaborate floggings and bondage. She is married to a doctor (Jean Sorel) and loves him, but cannot share physical intimacy with him. A male friend mentions a high-class brothel to Séverine, and soon she secretly tries to work there during the afternoon (using the pseudonym Belle de jour). The brothel is run by Madame Anaïs, played by Geneviève Page. Séverine will only work up until five o'clock each day, returning to her blissfully unaware husband in the evening. At the end of the film, it is revealed that the adventures she lived through only existed in her fantasies.
[edit] Cast
- Catherine Deneuve - Séverine Serizy aka Belle de Jour
- Jean Sorel - Pierre Serizy
- Michel Piccoli - Henri Husson
- Geneviève Page - Madame Anais
- Pierre Clémenti - Marcel
- Georges Marchal - Duke
- Françoise Fabian - Charlotte
- Macha Méril - Renée
- Muni - Pallas
- Maria Latour - Mathilde
[edit] Awards
The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1967.
[edit] Namesakes
- The song 'My Lover's Box' by UK rock group Garbage was inspired, in part at least, by the movie.
- The pseudonymous British writer Belle de Jour is presumably named after this film.
- The US-based sex worker and blogger, Serizy, also named her site after Catherine Deneuve's character in the film: http://serizy.blogspot.com
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Belle de jour at the Internet Movie Database
- Belle de jour review by Roger Ebert
- Review of DVD of Belle De Jour
- Belle de jour review by Edward Guthmann - San Francisco Chronicle
| Preceded by The Battle of Algiers |
Golden Lion winner 1967 |
Succeeded by Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos |
