Belle de Jour at Laemmle Theatres
Film
August 30, 2023
As part of their Anniversary Classics series, Laemmle Theatres present Luis Buñuel’s 1968 film Belle de Jour starring Catherine Deneuve.
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and its viewers’), as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions. Fantasy and reality commingle in this burst of cinematic transgression, which was one of Buñuel’s biggest hits.
DCP. France/Italy. 1968. Paris Film Production, Drama, 105 min
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