This screening includes BELLE DE JOUR
- Date and time:
- Sat, April 18, 7 pm; Free but ticketed (+$1.00 fee for online tickets)
- Genres:
Luis Buñuel's entrancing portrait of a housewife (a radiant Catherine Deneuve) rediscovering her desires.
About Belle de Jour
A bourgeois Parisian housewife takes on the day job of high-class prostitute as a means of coming to terms with a past trauma, and reclaims her personal agency and sexuality in the process. Featuring iconic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Luis Buñuel's classic erotic drama makes surrealism sexy. [101 min; drama; French with English subtitles]
“Belle de Jour is a film that's ambiguous and alluring in equal measure…this is a film that is still radical, thought provoking and enticing after 50 years.” — Ryan Pollard, Starburst
“Deneuve is utterly beguiling in a movie shifting between dream and reality with such deft sleights of hand that we are never sure whether we are watching episodes from Séverine's life or sharing her fantasies.” — David Parkinson, Radio Times
“Belle de Jour has the almost daunting, fragile flawlessness of the perfect crystal—a staggering, commanding piece of filmmaking.” — Penelope Houston, The Spectator
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