Belle De Jour (Bfi Film Classics)
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color illus., b&w illus. Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited behaviour, strangled libido with its liberated counterpart.
Luis Bunuel was catapulted into cinematic history by his ground-breaking Dali collaboration, Un Chien Andalou, in 1929, but it is Belle de Jour (1967) which inaugurates the extraordinary late phase of his work. It is a film shimmering with reflections on truth, fiction and fantasy, in addition to caustic social insight, as it tells the story of a woman clearing her mind, perhaps, of its ghosts.
About the Author
Michael Wood, Chair of the English department at Princeton University, is author of America in the Movies (Columbia University Press, 1989), as well as books on Nabokov and Stendhal.
Belle De Jour (Bfi Film Classics),Michael Wood,University of California Press,0851708234,Belle de jour (Motion picture),Film & Video - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Motion Pictures Of Specific Genres,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture
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