Belle de Jour is a 1967 French film directed by Luis Bunuel, starring Catherine Deneuve as a bored, sexually repressed bourgeois housewife who begins secretly working afternoons at a brothel while her fantasies and her waking life become increasingly difficult for the viewer to tell apart. Adapted from Joseph Kessel's novel, the film withholds any clear signal of where reality ends and daydream begins, a deliberate ambiguity that became one of its most discussed features. Belle de Jour won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and is widely regarded as one of Bunuel's major later works.
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How does Belle de Jour stand among the films of Luis Buñuel?
Britannica calls Belle de Jour the most commercial film of its director, Luis Buñuel, and one of the most erotic movies of the 1960s, even though it is largely devoid of nudity. Its notoriety came from its premise, a sheltered young wife who learns of a brothel that employs housewives in secret and decides to work there, not from explicit imagery.
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Belle de jour, French film drama, released in 1967, that was director Luis Buñuel’s most commercial film and one of the most erotic movies of the 1960s, though largely devoid of nudity.
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Belle de Jour is a 1967 French film directed by Luis Bunuel, starring Catherine Deneuve as a bored, sexually repressed bourgeois housewife who begins secretly working afternoons at a brothel while her fantasies and her waking life become increasingly difficult for the viewer to tell apart.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Golden Lion.
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Belle de Jour (pronounced [bɛl də ʒuʁ]) is a 1967 surrealist erotic psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière.
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Belle de Jour (pronounced [bɛl də ʒuʁ]) is a 1967 surrealist erotic psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière.
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