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Belle de Jour

Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!

1967 · 1h 41m · Approved Drama, Romance
Directed by Luis Buñuel

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Overview

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.

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95%
Tomatometer
Fresh

A delicacy, a passionate and compassionate study of erotica.

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
Fresh

It is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

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

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh

This silly little masterpiece regards Deneuve as the goddess of light she really was -- a figment of our collective appetite for the unreal.

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
Fresh

Every detail has been so carefully thought out that seeing it again is like seeing it in another key.

Renata Adler, New York Times

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