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Summary

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.

Cast

Catherine Deneuve

Séverine Serizy

Jean Sorel

Pierre Serizy

Michel Piccoli

Henri Husson

Geneviève Page

Madame Anais

Pierre Clémenti

Marcel

Françoise Fabian

Charlotte

Macha Méril

Renée

Muni

Pallas

Maria Latour

Mathilde

Claude Cerval

(uncredited)

Michel Charrel

Footman

Iska Khan

Asian client

Bernard Musson

Majordomo

Marcel Charvey

Prof. Henri

François Maistre

L'ensignant

Francisco Rabal

Hyppolite

Georges Marchal

Graf

Francis Blanche

Monsieur Adolphe

Luis Buñuel

Man in Gardencafe - Left from the Duke (uncredited)

Marc Eyraud

Barman (uncredited)

Bernard Fresson

Le grele (uncredited)

Crew

Director, Screenplay

Luis Buñuel

Author

Joseph Kessel

Screenplay

Jean-Claude Carrière

Reviews

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February 14, 2016

10

A wonderful parable of love, relationships and the place in both for fantasy and imagination. Certainly much more enjoyable to watch, not to mention better acted and directed, than recent delvings into that subject matter, like Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac (though that wasn't the latter's point). Intensely beautifully photographed, with wonderful performances, most especially by Catherine Deneuve. You can't go wrong with 60's and 70's Bunuel, that's for sure.