BELLE DE JOUR (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1967
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Catherine Deneuve's porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in the actress’s most iconic role: 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, Claude Cerval, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, François Maistre, Francisco Rabal, Georges Marchal, Francis Blanche, Adélaïde Blasquez, Stéphane Bouy, Luis Buñuel, Dominique Dandrieux, Albert Daumergue, Debut de Roseville, Marc Eyraud, Bernard Fresson, Pierre Marcay, Brigitte Parmentier, Antonio Passalia, Claude Salez, Dominique Sauvage, Pierre Vaudier, Joseph Kessel, Jean-Claude Carrière
• Director: Luis Buñuel
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Paris Film Production, Plaza Productions, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie