Séverine Serizy aka Belle de Jour
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Belle de Jour is a French film directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Catherine Deneuve as a housewife who becomes a prostitute. The film explores themes of sexuality, fantasy, and violence, and won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and its viewers’), as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions.
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Belle de Jour: Directed by Luis Buñuel. With Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page. A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
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Belle de Jour is a 1967 French New Wave psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli.
- 100 min
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- Movies from the Past
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy (Catherine Deneuve) cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre (Jean Sorel).
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- Luis Buñuel
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- Catherine Deneuve
Jul 25, 1999 · It was Luis Bunuel’s “Belle de Jour” (1967), the story of a respectable young wife who secretly works in a brothel one or two afternoons a week. Actors sometimes create “back stories” for their characters — things they know about them that we don’t.
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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.
