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Belle de Jour
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Belle de Jour is one of the most famous films directed by Luis Buñuel. It was based on Joseph Kessel's eponymous erotic novel. Released in 1967, it starred then-débutante Catherine Deneuve.Séverine (Deneuve) looks outwardly like the perfect Housewife. Beautiful, demure, well-mannered and impeccably groomed, she is the very image of bourgeois propriety. In fact she is a masochist who likes to fantasize about being humiliated and treated like a sex object. On the recommendation of a friend, she acts out on these fantasies by becoming a part-time sex worker in an upscale brothel. Since she only turns tricks during her husband's business hours, she is given the moniker Belle de Jour, "beauty of the day".Available from the The Criterion Collection (No. 593). | |
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A Taste of the Lash | |
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A Taste of the Lash: Séverine fantasizes about being tied up and flogged on the back by two low class sorts in livery. | |
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I Love the Dead | |
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I Love the Dead / Incest Subtext: The freakiest scene in the movie involves Séverine randomly meeting a stranger—not in her brothel, but when she's out and about—who invites her back to the mansion. The stranger has her dress up in a see-through robe, and then has her lie in a coffin. The stranger then calls her his daughter, before masturbating next to the coffin that contains a surprised Séverine. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Bunuel deliberately used Deneuve's appearance as a blond ice queen to emphasize the contrast between her straight-laced persona and her real inner self. | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse | |
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Marcel attempts this on Séverine's husband. Doesn't work, and he gets killed in the process. | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization | |
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Séverine's first job. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Starts with a carriage, ends with a carriage. Pierre asks Severine what she's dreaming about, and she responds, "you." | |
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High-Class Call Girl | |
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High-Class Call Girl: Séverine becomes a sex worker in a discriminating, boutique brothel. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: Not even Luis Bunuel himself was entirely sure what it meant. The sound of the carriage bells, which in other scenes are associated with her sexual fantasies, implies that she is imagining the last scene. | |
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Naughty by Night | |
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Naughty by Night: Inverted. Séverine is naughty by day (hence the title), because that's when her husband is at work. | |
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Band of Brothels | |
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Band of Brothels: Séverine's "colleagues". | |
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Erotic Film | |
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Erotic Film: Based on the erotic novel by Joseph Kessel. | |
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Riddle for the Ages | |
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Riddle for the Ages: One customer shows up with a small lacquered box, the contents of which cause Mathilde to recoil in shock. We'll never know what's in it. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Pierre reflecting upon a wheelchair. At the end of the movie, he's paraplegic. | |
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Fetish | |
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Fetish: Séverine's is to be tied up and sexually abused by strangers. | |
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Single-Issue Psychology | |
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Single-Issue Psychology: One brief scene implies that Séverine was sexually abused as a child, but this is never followed up. | |
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Indulgent Fantasy Segue | |
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Indulgent Fantasy Segue: At least two scenes, the two scenes where Pierre is humiliating Séverine, are revealed to be her fantasies. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: Some scenes are clearly Séverine's erotic fantasies, like the two scenes where her husband ties her up and sexually humiliates her, and the scene where she and Henri crawl under a table together while Pierre and Henri's wife idly chat. How much of the rest of the film is reality, and how much is Séverine's fantasies, is unclear. | |
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Sexless Marriage | |
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Sexless Marriage: Pierre is handsome, and clearly in love with Séverine, and wants to be intimate with her. She isn't interested. | |
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Sleeping Single | |
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Sleeping Single: Pierre and Severine don't share a bed. | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead | |
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Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Séverine (blonde) and her fellow sex workers Charlotte (brunette) and Mathilde (redhead). | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Séverine is turned on by sex with her clients but has no interests in her affectionate husband. | |
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All Women Are Lustful | |
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All Women Are Lustful: Séverine at least clearly wants some rough sex. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: It's unclear what really happens and what just takes place in Séverine's overactive fantasy life. | |
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Covert Pervert | |
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Covert Pervert: Séverine, the well-dressed, respectable housewife, who longs to be abused and humiliated, and goes to work as a sex worker. | |
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High-Class Call Girl / int_98ae696b | |
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Indulgent Fantasy Segue / int_98ae696b | |
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Naughty by Night / int_98ae696b | |
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