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List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $2 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 1967 DVD Release : 22 January, 2002 |
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Belle de Jour description 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 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Ultimately - A Depressing Film |
| Belle De Jour is certainly well revered among film buffs and it does have some brilliant elements. It is known as the film that made Catherine Deneuve a household name and an icon of a certain European elegant beauty. Nevertheless the film while watchable is incredibly depressing. Deneuve turns to working by day in a brothel apparently driven by a combination of inner demons and boredom with her marriage and her husband.
She gradually gets over her initial hesitancy and sets off a tragic chain of events and unintended consequences. The movie likely seemed very adult themed and sophisticated in it's time and still retains some of those qualities but may seem a bit dated in other repects to modern viewers. |
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