40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION DVD OUT TO OWN ON 22 JANUARY 2006“Undoubtedly Bunuel’s masterpiece” Time OutDirected by Luis BunuelStarring Catherine Denueve, Jean Sorel, Pierre Clémenti and Michel Piccoli.Undoubtedly Luis Buñuel’s most accessible film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 30 years ago.Screen icon Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) plays Severine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel.
There she meets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clémenti), and ignites an obsession that will court peril.
Long unavailable, the film won the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.BELLE DE JOUR