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Title: Belle de Jour (1967)
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| 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 | |
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Michel Charrel | ... | Footman |
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Iska Khan | ... | Asian Client |
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Bernard Musson | ... | Majordomo |
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Marcel Charvey | ... | Prof. Henri |
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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>
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. Her husband Pierre, the exquisite Jean Sorel, is like one of her garments. There, stunning, understated, reliable, existing without existing. Marcel, in the other hand, the riveting Pierre Clementi, seems determined to provoke. Provoke what? Where is that need creeping from? I love to meander through "Belle de Jour" allowing Luis Bunuel to have his fun. He deserves it. His puzzle is just that, a puzzle and his genius, challenge us to find the non existent pieces. The pieces are ours coming from our own wishes, wantings and longings.