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Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!
Certificate: 18
Running Time: 96
Retail Price: £19.99
Release Date: 22/01/2007

Synopsis:
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.

Expertly dramatising the collision between fantasy and reality, and between depravity and respectable bourgeois values, Buñuel, working from the novel by Joseph Kessel, fashions an immaculately designed (the fetishistic interiors and production designs are astonishing) and amoral comedy of manners. Long unavailable, the film won the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.

Special Features:
- Commentary with Peter W. Evans
- History of the Film
- Theatrical Trailer
- Other Releases

Video Tracks:
Anamorphic 1.66:1

Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono French

Subtitle Tracks:
English

Directed By:
Luis Bunuel

Written By:
Joseph Kessel
Jean-Claude Carrière
Luis Bunuel

Starring:
Catherine Deneuve
Jean Sorel
Michel Piccoli
Geneviève Page
Pierre Clémenti
Françoise Fabian
Macha Méril
Muni
Maria Latour
Claude Cerval
Michel Charrel
Iska Khan
Bernard Musson
Marcel Charvey
François Maistre
Francisco Rabal
Georges Marchal
Francis Blanche