About the film
Director:
Luis Buñuel
Actors:
Catherine Deneuve,
Michel Piccoli,
Jean Sorel
Catherine Deneuve returns to the screen in all her splendour in this beautifully restored 4K presentation of Luis Buñuel’s 1967 classic Belle de Jour. Deneuve is Severine, the beautiful, bored young wife of a wealthy Parisian surgeon, who submits to her conjugal duties rarely and unwillingly. After her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive brothel, Severine is lured into an erotic world of high-class prostitutes. It is here Severine is given the freedom to enact her fantasies as well as a secret erotic martyrdom bound with her dark past.
Interspersing reality with dreams and childhood flashbacks, Buñuel’s captivating masterpiece is a commentary on the hypocrisy of social relations and sexual politics that is as relevant today as it was upon its release.
“It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best.” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
WINNER: Critics Award – Best Film, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 1968
WINNER: Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 1967
NOMINATED: BAFTA Film Award – Best Actress, BAFTA Awards 1969
French, Spanish, Mongolian with English subtitles