Belle de Jour
Belle de jour
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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“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…”
— talisencrw
★10Read more“A blunt surprise insofar as the movies stark depictions of both a young woman's eccentric erotic fantasies alongside a rather harsh alternative lifestyle. In the middle there is a very conventional…”
— lwpcolonel
★8Read more“The slightly kinky opening scenes of this film go some way to explaining just why "Severine" (Catherine Deneuve) isn't so satisfied with her handsome yet sexually uninspiring husband "Pierre" (Jean…”
— CinemaSerf
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