Belle de Jour (film)
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Belle de jour is a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve. The film was directed by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel. It is based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel.
Plot
Séverine Serizy is a young, beautiful Paris housewife who has masochistic daydream fantasies about elaborate floggings and bondage. She is married to a doctor (Jean Sorel) and loves him, but cannot share physical intimacy with him. A male friend mentions a high-class brothel to Séverine, and soon she secretly tries to work there during the afternoon (using the pseudonym Belle de jour). The brothel is run by Madame Anaïs, played by Geneviève Page. Séverine will only work up until five o'clock each day, returning to her blissfully unaware husband in the evening.
Cast
- Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy aka Belle de Jour
- Jean Sorel as Pierre Serizy
- Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson
- Geneviève Page as Madame Anais
- Pierre Clémenti as Marcel
- Georges Marchal as Duke
- Françoise Fabian as Charlotte
- Macha Méril as Renée
- Muni as Pallas
- Maria Latour as Mathilde
Awards
The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1967.
