Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Catherine Deneuve | ... | Séverine Serizy / Belle de Jour | |
Jean Sorel | ... | Pierre Serizy | |
Michel Piccoli | ... | Henri Husson | |
Geneviève Page | ... | Madame Anais | |
Pierre Clémenti | ... | Marcel (as Pierre Clementi) | |
Françoise Fabian | ... | Charlotte | |
Macha Méril | ... | Renee (as Macha Meril) | |
Muni | ... | Pallas | |
Maria Latour | ... | Mathilde | |
Claude Cerval | ... | Le chauffeur | |
![]() |
Michel Charrel | ... | Footman |
![]() |
Iska Khan | ... | Asian Client |
![]() |
Bernard Musson | ... | Majordomo |
![]() |
Marcel Charvey | ... | Prof. Henri |
![]() |
François Maistre | ... | L'enseignant |
Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage. Written by James Meek <james@oz.net>
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