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Belle de Jour

starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti
directed by: Luis Buñuel

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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780788833397
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0788833391
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Running Time: 101 minutes
Sales Rank: 6437
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 1967



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Description:
Widely acclaimed as a motion picture masterpiece, BELLE DE JOUR is an erotically charged tale of deceit and desire! Beautiful Catherine Deneuve (INDOCHINE) stars as Severine, a perfect young housewife ... who leads a shocking double life. What her loving husband Pierre doesn't know is that by day she's a high-priced prostitute! But when the dangerous obsession of a customer forces her terrible secrets out into the open, Pierre must decide whether to reject her for what she has done ... or accept her for who she is! Now available on video for the first time, the stunning erotic intrigue of BELLE DE JOUR will both captivate and entertain!

Amazon.com essential video:
A young Paris housewife, Séverine, grows bored with her stable husband. When she learns of the presence of a high-class brothel in her neighborhood, she quietly goes to work there--but only during the day, until five o'clock in the afternoon. This sublime 1967 film is one of the latter-day masterpieces of the Spanish-born director Luis Buñuel, whose career forms one of the greatest and boldest arcs in cinema. By the time of Belle de jour, Buñuel had become almost completely deadpan in his style, which not only leaves the motivation of Séverine a mystery (despite a few flashbacks to degradations of her youth), but also casts the entire plot in doubt. An old surrealist from the 1920s (when his first classic, Un chien andalou, was made in collaboration with Salvador Dali), Buñuel suggests that what we see may be real, or simply Séverine's imagination. Because he was the least pretentious of directors, Buñuel keeps his material playful, wicked, yet cutting. As Séverine, the impossibly lovely Catherine Deneuve uses her cool demeanor to great effect--she never breaks her deadpan, either. In 1995, after having been out of official circulation for years, Belle de Jour was re-released in America and became an unexpected art-house hit. --Robert Horton



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - La Belle France et La Belle Deneuve
Despite an impression of slight roughness in the presentation of this film and perhaps because of ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Magnifique
Belle De Jour is one of the best French films of all time (and indeed one of the best films, period). ... Read More


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Overrated
There was something about the 1960s that brought out a playfulness in filmmakers which allowed them to ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great movie but get the Region 2 DVD, it's worth it!
I've seen both versions and although I have to watch my Region 2 DVD on my computer (all you need is to ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The gap between fantasy and reality in female desire...
Deneuve plays SĂ©verine Serizy, a bored middle-class woman who never slept with her handsome husband Pierre ... Read More

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