The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 80% of the 790 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
1,036 audience votes
Key crew
- Luis BuñuelDirector
- Jean-Claude CarrièreScreenplay
- Luis BuñuelScreenplay
Cast
- Catherine DeneuveSéverine Serizy
- Jean SorelPierre Serizy
- Michel PiccoliHenri Husson
- Geneviève PageMadame Anais
- Pierre ClémentiMarcel
- Françoise FabianCharlotte
- Macha MérilRenée
- MuniPallas
- Maria LatourMathilde
- Claude CervalThe Driver (uncredited)
- Michel CharrelFootman
- Iska KhanAsian Client
Stills
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Themes
adulteryprostitutejealousydreamshusband wife relationshipdual identitydouble lifesexual frustrationbrothelwomen's sexual identitymasochismsexual exploration
The Best Movies of 1967
Belle de Jour is #15 of 60
