Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a wealthy young newlywed who's eager to live life to the fullest. Although she loves her husband, Severine can't bring herself to be intimate with him. To sate her phys...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 22, 2002
Stats: 121 reviews
This is a great film, one of many Luis Buñuel classics, erotic with the usual symbolic undertones, with the ever wonderful Catherine Deneuve.
It's awfully hard to imagine how earth-shattering a film like "Belle de Jour" was upon it's release. In 1967, it certainly wasn't common to see a film as erotic as this one, which could even make some modern movie-goers uncomfortable with it's depiction of shameless fetishes, suc...( read more)
Sèverine is perfect, she's Catherine Deneuve. She consciously inhabits her subconscious and the comings and goings are tinted with pristine, erotic decadence. Her perfection includes outrage without rage, panic without fear. Having or not having is the question she never asks. He...( read more)
I've just been reading all the reviews and ratings of my Flixster friends who had seen Belle de Jour, and some of them had rated this movie very high. I am unable to share the same rating because I did not like the movie and I could not waste a good review on it.This movie was no...( read more)
Classic Bunuel! Symbolism runs deep in a movie that will leave you a fan of Catherine Deneuve.
One tends to forget Buñuel these days, but he was no less a giant than Antonioni, Felini or Bergman. And this is one of his very very best films... a playful reflection on bourgeois morality.
Lo que me molesta es que no es explícita si-no más bien artística. Pero upongo que esta bien.
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