BELLE DE JOUR

The story portrays a beautiful, young housewife named Severine Serizy who is masochistic and fantasizes about floggings and bondage. Although being married to a doctor and loving him she is unable to share any physical relationship with him. Frustration creeps within them. A friend of Severine Serizy shows her a door to brothel to satisfy her physical needs. Severine starts working over there in the afternoon shift using a pseudonym Belle de jour without the knowledge of her husband.

But slowly Severine gets entangled with a young gangster called Marcel. When Severine wants to leave the brothel complication arises. Marcel shoots her husband thrice and he then is shot by the police. Finally her husband knows the truth about his wife. The film ends with Severine once again back to her world of fantasy where there are no sexual desires. She kisses her husband looking outside the window.

Key casts are Catherine Denevue as Severine Serizy, Jean Sorel as Pierry Serizy, Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson, Pierre Clementi as Marcel.



10 Reasons you should watch Belle De Jour:

1. Belle De Jour is a fascinating movie that deals with hidden fantasies of a human.
2. The film dares to connect Deneuve's porcelain beauty to the world of bourgeois rebellion.
3. Director Luis Bunuel created his masterworks in the world of surreal cinemas.
4. The great use of dreams fused with reality.
5. The talks about the delicacy, passion and compassion.
6. Belle De Jour is one of the best known erotic films of modern era.
7. The film talks about the emotional turmoil in a person's life.
8. Belle De Jour is one of the top French films ever made.
9. This one of the best French language movies also ranks under top 100 foreign films.
10. The French film has won the Golden Lion award at Venice Film Festival in 1967.

I also recommend you to watch these two movies:

Simon of The Desert: Claudio Brook portrays Christian Simon who dispenses religious sagacity while standing on a tall column amidst the desert.

An Andalusian Dog: In a dream-like sequence the film shows a woman's eye is slit open with a similarly shaped cloud obscuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye.

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Luis Buñuel Portoles (22 February 1900 - 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-born filmmaker who acquired Mexican citizenship and worked in Mexico, France, and also in his native Spain and the United States. He is considered one of finest directors in the history of cinema.

An Andalusian Dog 1929
The Golden Age 1930
Land Without Bread 1933
Magnificent Casino 1947
The Great Madcap 1949
The Forgotten 1950
The Devil and the Flesh 1951
The Daughter of Deceit 1951
Ascent to Heaven (Mexican Bus Ride) 1952
A Woman Without Love 1952
The Brute 1953
This Strange Passion aka Torments 1953
Illusion Travels
by Streetcar 1954
Wuthering Heights 1954
Rehearsal for a Crime aka The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz 1955
The River and the Death 1955
That is the Dawn 1956
Death in the Garden 1956
Fever Rises in El Pao
aka Republic of Sin 1959
The Exterminating Angel 1962
The Diary of a Chambermaid 1964
Simon of the Desert 1965
The Milky Way 1969
The Discreet Charm of
the Bourgeoisie 1972
The Phantom of Liberty 1974
That Obscure Object of Desire 1977