

Belle de Jour
Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!
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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- Released
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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
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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
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Belle de Jour was released on 24 May 1967.
Audience reviews
3- T10/10
talisencrw
2/14/2016
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…
- L8/10
lwpcolonel
1/14/2018
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 …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/12/2024
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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