Belle De Jour
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
3 September 1940, Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
8 March 1926, Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain
22 May 1943
27 December 1925, Paris, France
13 September 1936, Tarare, Rhône, France
28 September 1942, Paris, France
10 January 1920, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
25 September 1934, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
10 May 1933, Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]
22 February 1925, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France
April 11, 2016
Belle de Jour has the almost daunting, fragile flawlessness of the perfect crystal -- a staggering, commanding piece of film-making rather than a great film.September 02, 2014
Few faces in the movies have contemporized storytelling standards as swiftly as Catherine Deneuve's.April 19, 2006
Of all the supposedly challenging attractions playing locally in our supposedly more enlightened era, the most compellingly erotic and entertaining spectacle is still provided by Belle de JourFebruary 11, 2012
Something that keeps us on our toes in Belle de Jour comes from Luis Buñuel's refusal to spell out what is real and what is not. Must this be so clear to us when the fantasy life of Séverine means so much to her?May 20, 2003
Every detail has been so carefully thought out that seeing it again is like seeing it in another key.July 01, 2006
It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best.June 18, 2002
A wise, enormously enjoyable film about the power of fantasy -- a toast to the importance of dreams.April 11, 2006
This silly little masterpiece regards Deneuve as the goddess of light she really was -- a figment of our collective appetite for the unreal.September 08, 2014
Deneuve is radiant in the lead role ... packed with Buñuel's trademark surrealistic imagery and a few really memorable fantasy sequences.January 19, 2012
A character study with surreal interludes and a rare film in which Buñuel depicts a member of the upper class with some sympathy and depthAugust 03, 2006
A delicacy, a passionate and compassionate study of erotica.March 10, 2012
Luis Bunuel's cheerfully brazen satire of sexual repression, social decorum, and erotic fantasies is in the running for Bunuel's kinkiest film, and that's saying a lot.