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7.3Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Cast
- Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy
- Jean Sorel as Pierre Serizy
- Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson
- Geneviève Page as Madame Anais
- Pierre Clémenti as Marcel
- Françoise Fabian as Charlotte
Themes
- adultery
- prostitute
- jealousy
- dreams
- husband wife relationship
- dual identity
- double life
- sexual frustration
- brothel
- women's sexual identity
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Luis Buñuel
- Screenplay by
- Luis Buñuel Jean-Claude Carrière
- Based on
- Belle de Jour , by Joseph Kessel
- Produced by
- Henri Baum Robert Hakim Raymond Hakim
- Starring
- Catherine Deneuve Jean Sorel Michel Piccoli
- Cinematography
- Sacha Vierny
- Edited by
- Louisette Hautecoeur
- Production companies
- Paris Film Production Five Film
- Distributed by
- Valoria (France) Euro International Films (Italy)
- Release dates
- 24 May 1967 ( 1967-05-24 ) (France) 14 September 1967 ( 1967-09-14 ) (Italy)
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Countries
- France Italy
- Language
- French
- Box office
- 2,162,160 admissions (France)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Award
- Golden Lion
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- French
- Followed by
- Belle Toujours
- Main subject
- prostitution
- Creator
- Luis Buñuel
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Screenwriter
- Joseph Kessel
- Cast member
- Luis Buñuel
- Composer
- Michel Magne
- Cinematographer
- Sacha Vierny
- Narrative location
- Paris
- Filming location
- Paris
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 601862
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1967-01-01
- title
- Belle de jour
- costume designer
- Yves Saint Laurent
- film format
- 35 mm film
- plot expanded in
- Belle Toujours
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 95%
- Commons category
- Belle de Jour (film)
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Encyclopedic overview
Belle de Jour ( pronounced [bɛl də ʒuʁ]) is a 1967 surrealist erotic psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière. Based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel, the film stars Catherine Deneuve in the leading role as Séverine, a young housewife who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class prostitute, while her husband is at work. It co-stars Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli, and features Geneviève Page, Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clémenti, Francis Blanche and Georges Marchal in supporting roles.
The title of the film is a play on words on the French term belle de nuit ("beauty of the night", i.e., a prostitute), as Séverine works during the day under the pseudonym "Belle de Jour". Her nickname can also be interpreted as a reference to the French name of the morning glory (Convolvulaceae), meaning "beauty of [the] day", a flower that blooms only during the day.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belle de Jour” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.