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Actors: Catherine Deneuve
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Belle de Jour |
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Severine Serizy (Deneuve) is a beautiful 23-year-old Parisian woman married to a surgeon, Pierre (Sorel), whom she loves dearly but with whom she cannot be physically intimate. She has a wild, kinky fantasy life, however, which mostly involve her being abused as a masochist. One day she hears about a high-class brothel and eventually goes to work there in the afternoons before returning home to her husband. A young gangster client, Marcel (Clementi), falls for her, and though she enjoys being with him -- doesn't even charge him for her services -- she doesn't really care for him and eventually gets in way over her head. Veteran Spanish surrealist director Luis Bunuel based this 1967 film, on a 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Severine is a young housewife in a steady marriage, who finds herself fantasizing about humiliating sexual situations and starts to work daytime at a brothel in order to fulfill these fantasies.
--Julie, Resident Scholar
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Belle de Jour (directed by Louis Buñuel) is a film detailing the change in Severine played by Catherine Deneuve. She eventually goes to work at the brothel during the day, and plays housewife by night. The movie follows her awakening to an interesting conclusion.
This film features a great deal of drean sequences, and after a while it becomes difficult to distinguish between reality and fantasy. The English commentary on the DVD is quite useful.
--Allen Strelow, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Belle de Jour |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- inconveniently married while playing footsy
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- sex with client/patient
- really kinky sex!
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- prostitute
Training/apprentice story
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
Style
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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