BELLE DE JOUR (CRITERION COLLECTION) (VERSION FRANAISE)

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• Release Year: 1967
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her after­noon hours working in a bordello. 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. Fantasy and reality commingle in this burst of cinematic transgression, which was one of Buñuel’s biggest hits.
• Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clémenti, Françoise Fabian, Macha Méril, Muni, Maria Latour, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, François Maistre, Francisco Rabal, Georges Marchal, Francis Blanche, Adélaïde Blasquez, Luis Buñuel, Dominique Dandrieux, D. De Roseville, Marc Eyraud, Bernard Fresson, Pierre Marcay, Brigitte Parmentier, Joseph Kessel
• Director: Luis Buñuel
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: The Criterion Collection, Janus Films, Paris Film Productions, Plaza Productions
• Media Format: Movie