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DVD : Belle de JourIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Francis Blanche, Claude Cerval, Michel Charrel, Pierre Clémenti, Dominique Dandrieux directed by: Luis Buñuel  List Price: $19.99 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $2.00 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 9780788833397 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 0788833391 Label: Miramax Manufacturer: Miramax Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Miramax Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 22, 2002 Running Time: 102 minutes Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: 1967 Sales Rank: 10791 MPN: 2473903 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Widely acclaimed as a motion picture masterpiece, BELLE DE JOUR is an erotically charged tale of deceit and desire! Beautiful Catherine Deneuve (INDOCHINE) stars as Severine, a perfect young housewife ... who leads a shocking double life. What her loving husband Pierre doesn't know is that by day she's a high-priced prostitute! But when the dangerous obsession of a customer forces her terrible secrets out into the open, Pierre must decide whether to reject her for what she has done ... or accept her for who she is! Now available on video for the first time, the stunning erotic intrigue of BELLE DE JOUR will both captivate and entertain! Amazon.com essential video: A young Paris housewife, Séverine, grows bored with her stable husband. When she learns of the presence of a high-class brothel in her neighborhood, she quietly goes to work there--but only during the day, until five o'clock in the afternoon. This sublime 1967 film is one of the latter-day masterpieces of the Spanish-born director Luis Buñuel, whose career forms one of the greatest and boldest arcs in cinema. By the time of Belle de jour, Buñuel had become almost completely deadpan in his style, which not only leaves the motivation of Séverine a mystery (despite a few flashbacks to degradations of her youth), but also casts the entire plot in doubt. An old surrealist from the 1920s (when his first classic, Un chien andalou, was made in collaboration with Salvador Dali), Buñuel suggests that what we see may be real, or simply Séverine's imagination. Because he was the least pretentious of directors, Buñuel keeps his material playful, wicked, yet cutting. As Séverine, the impossibly lovely Catherine Deneuve uses her cool demeanor to great effect--she never breaks her deadpan, either. In 1995, after having been out of official circulation for years, Belle de Jour was re-released in America and became an unexpected art-house hit. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating:  - OverratedThere was something about the 1960s that brought out a playfulness in filmmakers which allowed them to not have to condescend to audiences and wrap up every little aspect of the film in a neat little bow. When the films' techniques and narrative strengths worked, as in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup, or Ingmar Bergman's Persona, the result was a great film. When neither worked, the result was a pretentious mess, like Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby or Luis ... Read More Rating:  - Great movie but get the Region 2 DVD, it's worth it!I've seen both versions and although I have to watch my Region 2 DVD on my computer (all you need is to download a program like AnyDVD that allows you to watch other region DVDs), it's worth it. 16:9 anamorphic, great sound, clear picture and it's an anniversary edition with a booklet and a beautiful format. You can get it from Amazon UK. For those of you who aren't happy with the Region 1 version. As for the movie itself, I just have to say I love Bunuel's dialogues. I have Discreet Charm ... Read More Rating: - The gap between fantasy and reality in female desire...Deneuve plays Séverine Serizy, a bored middle-class woman who never slept with her handsome husband Pierre (Jean Sorel). She eventually adopts a double life on weekday afternoons as a hooker... Here she explores the depths of her desires with her amazing sexual inhibitions... Although the film resolves around her goings-on at a high-class brothel, real nudity and sex are never shown... "Belle de Jour" may seem one of the most mysterious, poetic, and provoking films ever made... Producing ... Read More Rating: - Belle de JourI agree with Wing J. Flanagan's review; there is nothing wrong with this DVD. Buy it! Rating: - When shall I receive it????I ordered the item, paid by credit card and still haven't received it. What's going on? Have I done something wrong? Browse for similar items by category:
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