Movie

Belle de Jour

1967 · 101 min

A cool, dreamlike plunge into desire and deception, where fantasy and reality blur and nothing is quite what it seems.

Tagline: Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!
Overview: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
How it feels: Eerie, melancholic, tense and satirical. Measured and demanding.
About: Identity, obsession, deception, sexuality
Content: Strong sexual content. Mild violence, gore and language.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
obsession
deception
sexuality
betrayal
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong