Belle de jour

Resource Information

The work Belle de jour represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Belle de jour

Statement of responsibility

Martin Scorsese presents ; Miramax Zoë ; co-production Paris Film Production, Five Film Rome ; Robert et Raymond Hakim présentent ; un film de Luis Buñuel ; adaptation et dialogue, Luis Buñuel et Jean-Claude Carriere ; un production Robert et Raymond Hakim

Contributor

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Five Film Rome
• Five Film Rome
• Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Miramax Zoë (Firm)
• Miramax Zoë (Firm)
• Paris Film Production
• Paris Film Production
• Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983
• Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983
• Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-2021
• Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-2021
• Clémenti, Pierre, 1942-1999
• Clémenti, Pierre, 1942-1999
• Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-
• Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-
• Fabian, Françoise, 1932-
• Fabian, Françoise, 1932-
• Hakim, Raymond, 1909-1980
• Hakim, Raymond, 1909-1980
• Hakim, Robert, 1907-1992
• Hakim, Robert, 1907-1992
• Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979
• Marchal, Georges, 1920-1997
• Marchal, Georges, 1920-1997
• Méril, Macha, 1940-
• Méril, Macha, 1940-
• Page, Geneviève
• Page, Geneviève
• Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020
• Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020
• Rabal, Francisco, 1926-2001
• Rabal, Francisco, 1926-2001
• Scorsese, Martin
• Scorsese, Martin
• Sorel, Jean, 1934-
• Sorel, Jean, 1934-

Subject

• Adaptations
• Adaptations
• Boredom -- France -- Drama
• Boredom -- France -- Drama
• Drama
• Drama
• Feature films -- France
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Foreign films
• Foreign films
• Housewives -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Housewives -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979 -- Film adaptations
• Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979 -- Film adaptations
• Married women -- France -- Drama
• Married women -- France -- Drama
• Motion pictures, French
• Motion pictures, French
• Prostitution -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Prostitution -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• Videorecording

Genre

• Adaptations
• Drama
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings

Language

• fre
• eng
• eng
• fre
• fre

Summary

Severine is a repressed, bored housewife, afraid of intimacy. Her husband, Pierre is kind, devoted, and understanding. Severine is aroused by the idea of domination and debasement, and gentle Pierre is hardly the type of person who would treat her cruelly in order to receive sexual gratification. Following the example of an acquaintance, she begins a double life as the girl called Belle de Jour, in the brothel run by Madame Anais. Her otherwise placid domestic life is threatened when an obsessed client, unable to possess her completely, begins to stalk her

Awards note

1967 Golden Lion Award Winner--Luis Buñuel; Pasinetti Award, Best Film--Luis Buñuel, Venice International Film Festival

Cataloging source

BIB

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Sacha Vierny; editor, Walter Spohr

Language note

In French or dubbed English with optional subtitles in English

PerformerNote

Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clementi, Françoise Fabian, Macha Meril, Francisco Rabal, Georges Marchal, Francis Blanche

Runtime

102

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action