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Belle de Jour

Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!

7.3(1,051)19671h 41m9

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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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
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Language
French
  • adultery
  • prostitute
  • jealousy
  • dreams
  • husband wife relationship
  • dual identity
  • double life
  • sexual frustration
  • brothel
  • women's sexual identity
  • masochism
  • sexual exploration

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Luis Buñuel

Produced in

France, Italy

Where to watch

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Release dates

  • IndiaIN

    • PhysicalUABlu-Ray17 Jan 2012
  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR10 Apr 1968
    • Theatrical (limited)RRe-release28 Jun 1995
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1826 Sept 1967
  • CanadaCA

    • Physical14ADVD17 Jan 2012
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical+1615 May 1968
  • BelgiumBE

    • Theatrical1613 Oct 1967
  • BrazilBR

    • Physical14DVD2 Oct 2017
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical1520 Nov 1967
  • FinlandFI

    • TheatricalK-182 Feb 1968
  • FranceFR

    • TheatricalTP24 May 1967
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1815 Sept 1967
    • Premiere16Berlin International Film Festival11 Feb 2008
  • GreeceGR

    • TheatricalK158 Jan 1968

Frequently asked questions

Belle de Jour was released on 24 May 1967.

Audience reviews

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    talisencrw

    2/14/2016

    10/10

    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…

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    lwpcolonel

    1/14/2018

    8/10

    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 and ordinary real life tale of a married couple where the husband has no idea what's going on within his wife's mind, and life, both past and present. Reality and fantasy seem to blend in a young woman's mind implicitly …

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    CinemaSerf

    2/12/2024

    7/10

    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 Sorel). Indeed, quickly we gather that they are yet to consummate their nuptials at all! Increasingly exasperated, she hears of a "facility" run by "Madame Anais" (Geneviève Page) where some of those kinks might be ironed …

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