A Deneuve Dozen
BELLE DE JOUR
DIRECTOR: LUIS BUÑUEL
FRANCE/ITALY, 1967
A luminous Catherine Deneuve stars as Séverine, the sexually unfulfilled wife of a gentle doctor who finds diversion working afternoons in a brothel. Deftly weaving fantasy and memory with reality, Buñuel creates one of his most brilliant discourses on the nature of human sexuality and the utter confusion that stems from the co-mingling of ideas about love, mortality, and eroticism. “Buñuel’s greatest and most beautiful film; the purest expression of surrealism in the history of cinema.”—Andrew Sarris. (100 mins.)