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Belle de jour
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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   9,918 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Joseph Kessel (novel)
Luis Buñuel (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
10 April 1968 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!
Plot:
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 4 wins more
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
Belle de Jour, you're nothing like her
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 26 November 2009, 5:22 AM, PST)

Can Sexual Provocation Still Sell?
 (From IFC. 28 October 2009, 6:15 AM, PDT)

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The gap between fantasy and reality in female desire… more (83 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Beauty of the Day (International: English title) (literal title)
Bella di giorno (Italy)
Belle de Jour (USA)
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Runtime:
101 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Director Cameo: [Luis Buñuel]Sitting in the outdoor café when the Duke gets off his carriage. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When the client that wants to be spanked rejects Belle Du Jour she puts her robe back on but not her bra. Then when she sees the Asian client a few moments later, she takes off her robe and her bra is on. more
Quotes:
Séverine Serizy: Pierre, please, don't let the cats out. more
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The gap between fantasy and reality in female desire…, 25 May 2008
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Deneuve plays Séverine Serizy, a bored middle-class woman who never slept with her handsome husband Pierre (Jean Sorel). She eventually adopts a double life on weekday afternoons as a hooker… Here she explores the depths of her desires with her amazing sexual inhibitions… Although the film resolves around her goings-on at a high-class brothel, real nudity and sex are never shown…

"Belle de Jour" may seem one of the most mysterious, poetic, and provoking films ever made… Producing a body of work unparalleled in its wealth of meaning and its ability to surprise and shock, Buñuel leads us into a new world arousing wonder and astonishment, depravity and pleasure, weird and entertaining…

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