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Belle De Jour
The life of Severine, a young beautiful married woman, who is deeply in love with her husband, but she does not like to mate with him, has been changed completely, when she works at a hot house afternoon.
















21 February 1921, Paris, France

13 September 1936, Tarare, Rhône, France

10 January 1920, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France


23 June 1929, Madagascar

13 December 1927, Paris, France

3 September 1940, Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]

28 September 1942, Paris, France

20 July 1921, Paris, France

25 September 1934, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

8 March 1926, Águilas, Murcia, Región de Murcia, Spain

22 February 1925, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France

22 May 1943

27 December 1925, Paris, France

22 February 1916, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

10 May 1933, Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

22 October 1943, Paris, France

14 May 1925, Demigny, Saône-et-Loire, France



March 10, 2012
Luis Bunuel's cheerfully brazen satire of sexual repression, social decorum, and erotic fantasies is in the running for Bunuel's kinkiest film, and that's saying a lot.
February 11, 2012
Something that keeps us on our toes in Belle de Jour comes from Luis Buñuel's refusal to spell out what is real and what is not. Must this be so clear to us when the fantasy life of Séverine means so much to her?
January 19, 2012
A character study with surreal interludes and a rare film in which Buñuel depicts a member of the upper class with some sympathy and depth
September 08, 2014
Deneuve is radiant in the lead role ... packed with Buñuel's trademark surrealistic imagery and a few really memorable fantasy sequences.
April 11, 2006
This silly little masterpiece regards Deneuve as the goddess of light she really was -- a figment of our collective appetite for the unreal.
April 11, 2016
Belle de Jour has the almost daunting, fragile flawlessness of the perfect crystal -- a staggering, commanding piece of film-making rather than a great film.
May 20, 2003
Every detail has been so carefully thought out that seeing it again is like seeing it in another key.
July 01, 2006
It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best.
September 02, 2014
Few faces in the movies have contemporized storytelling standards as swiftly as Catherine Deneuve's.
April 19, 2006
Of all the supposedly challenging attractions playing locally in our supposedly more enlightened era, the most compellingly erotic and entertaining spectacle is still provided by Belle de Jour
June 18, 2002
A wise, enormously enjoyable film about the power of fantasy -- a toast to the importance of dreams.
August 03, 2006
A delicacy, a passionate and compassionate study of erotica.