Movie
Belle de Jour
Adaptation film with a runtime of 110 minutes, released in 1966. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a tree, and whipped. It turns out that this is only a daydream, but her subsequent visits to a neighboring brothel, where she offers her services, certainly seem to be real. This illusion/reality dichotomy extends to the final scenes, in which we are offered two possible endings. Thanks to a question of copyright and ownership, Belle de Jour disappeared from view shortly after its 1967 release, not even resurfacing on videotape. When it was reissued theatrically in 1994, many critics placed the perplexing but mesmerizing film on their lists of that year's best films.
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Cast
- Catherine Deneuve
- Jean Sorel
- Michel Piccoli
- Geneviève Page
- Francisco Rabal
- Pierre Clémenti
- Francois Fabian
- Macha Meril
- Francis Blanche
- Maria Latour
- Georges Marchal
- Muni
- Iska Khan
- Bernard Musson
- Marcel Charvey
- D. de Roseville
- Michel Charrel
- Brigitte Parmentier
- François Maistre
- Bernard Fresson
- Dominique Dandrieux
- Pierre Marcay
- Adélaïde Blasquez
- Marc Eyraud
- Claude Cerval
- Yves Saint-Laurent
- Robert Clavel
- Louisette Hautecoeur
- Joseph Kessel
- Sacha Vierny
- Helene Noury
- Janine Jarreau
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Luis Buñuel
