Film
Belle de Jour
- Director
- Luis Bunuel
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 100 mins
Bored doctor’s wife Severine (Catherine Deneuve) seeks distraction working in a high-class Parisian brothel while hubby’s at work. The pervier things get, the more fun she has. The first in Luis Bunuel’s final series of films aimed at skewering bourgeios French hypocrisy, the subversive Belle de Jour was also his biggest commercial success. This he attributed “more to the marvellous whores than to my direction.”
It’s back on screen to launch the Watershed’s Peter Strickland and the Scala Sunday brunch season to accompany the release of In Fabric.
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