Belle de jour (1967)
Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him... (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Luis Buñuel
Written By: Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel, Joseph Kessel
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Francisco Rabal, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian, Jean Sorel, Francis Blanche, Macha Méril, Geneviève Page, Claude Cerval, Muni, Michel Charrel
Genre: Drama
AKA: Beauty of the Day
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Alex Watkins | 3 38th |
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A very interesting, if somewhat dry, take on sexual perversity and escapism, that touches on several other interesting themes - misogyny, societal attitudes towards sexuality, perception, et al. It plays out rather conventionally, and lacks any particular stylistic flair, but Severine's mysterious fascination and pursuit of sexual awakening, and the movie's occasional sense of humor give it a boost. I look forward to seeing more by Bunuel.
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billkerwin | 100 99th |
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A beautiful and enigmatic film. Surrealism in a high-class bordello . . . what could be more enticing? This is Bunuel at the the height of his powers, when--with a style as deceptively simple as Howard Hawks'--he causes the reveries and jokes of the unconscious mind to materialize within a realistic narrative as naturally and casually as the appearance of the sitcom neighbor next door. Also . . Catharine Deneuve-and this is saying a lot--has never been more beautiful.
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MartinTeller | 77 61st |
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I was engaged by the story, intrigued by the fantasy sequences, and I thought the mysterious, ambiguous ending was superb and almost made up for the lack of anything particularly special during the first 90 minutes. Almost. Bunuel's a bit too repetitive, he covers this same ground elsewhere. Skewering the bourgeois, exploring sexual perversity, man's subjugation of woman -- been there, done that.
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eveelun | 88 96th |
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Bunuel is in top form here, skewering the aristocratic circle with relentlessly cynical humor that reveals disdain mixed with fascination. The dreamy surrealism fits in very well, and the ending is just perfect.
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CCLZA | 90 95th |
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Buñuel's peak on style is here. One of the finest examples of surrealism, where memory, dreams and reality convey in a single moment. Deneuve is untoppable.
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KasperL | 80 86th |
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Before Lynch, Buñuel was the undisputed master of creating atmospheric states able to suggest that the action takes place somewhere between reality and a dream. Applying this sort of atmosphere to sexual fantasy works very well here, even if the story is relatively simple.
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purgatos | 84 80th |
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This is well done by Buñuel, but I feel like I've seen most of this elsewhere. It's just earlier stuff in a slicker, sexier package. Not to say it's not great(the fantasies and ending particularly were), it just doesn't offer anything new as far as I could see.
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With the exception of Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L Age d or (1930), I have really not gotten Luis Bunuel at all. This is his most accessible film so far from what I have seen, with clear themes and ideas, but it was also extremely dull for me to sit through. Blasphemous maybe, but I feel that there are people who could take these ideas into far more interesting places than him.
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willofgaia | 70 22nd |
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As with every other Bunuel movie I've seen, and the first thought the crossed my mind was "So?"
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Pickpocket | 9 93rd |
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95% dream, 5% reality.
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adrianavb | 78 88th |
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Excelent performance by Catherine Deneuve, she's an amazing actor. The editing and the rythm are great.
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Nathan S | 3 45th |
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Good, but rather conventional and unremarkable.
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PeaceAnarchy | 77 51st |
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An interesting exploration of a bourgois woman's fantasies through the eyes of Buñuel. It's good, but while it has some unique Buñuel touches it lacks the visual flair of some of his other films and the tone is a little too serious.
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saucyjack | 89 86th |
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Hallucinogenic and arousing film with an absolutely stunning Deneuve. However, Bunuel's reliance on fantasies/dreams can become trying at times. I prefer his cinematic ventures with Dali and especially his film "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie".
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Bown | 85 76th |
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I liked this a lot when I was younger; it was one of the first non-mainstream films I watched and so kind of opened me up a bit. Not sure whether I'd like it as much now, but the score stands.
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DerDude | 10 93rd |
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Bunuel reveals the inner struggle of a woman unable to be sexually intimate with her husband and beautifully weaves her desires and fantasies into a maze of dreaming and reality.
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Rufam | 65 42nd |
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Probably feels a lot milder now than when first realesed, but some of the power of the themes in "Belle de jour" remains untamed. The dream sequences are intriguing, as is the examination of sexual esapicm, although I often felt that Buñuel could have gone farther in exploring it. Very interesting, but not all that remarkable.
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loc42 | 70 56th |
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Marcel as a Count Dracula and the fat guy from Asia are loved by Belle because they represent the evil spirit which can awake the sexuality in her, which was suppressed by the bourgeois ethics according to which she lived. The brothel is like the unconscious whereas her home is her conciousness but at the end they get intertwined and Belle's marriage is rescued. Bunuel tells that it is a pathologic life if you always suppress the evil artificially which is against the human nature.
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flawless
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Yiannos | 83 95th |
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Belle De Jour is surely one of best films ever made about the complex relationship between class and desire that is not just a satire of bourgeois mores but also a kind of investigation into the psycho-social character of sexuality as a messy manifestation of performance and impulse. Deneuve is extraordinary as Severine, an upper class woman torn between conflicting lifestyles (of the respectable bourgeois wife and the 'whore') and Bunuel uses her delicate porcelain features to iconic effect.
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| Average Percentile 70.69% from 1980 Ratings |  |