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Belle de Jour[Subtitle] - DVD

SKU: 11767395 | Release Date: 1/22/2002

Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Not For Children, Adult Humor

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Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Not For Children, Adult Humor
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1967
Length: 102 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Dramas
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Other Formats: Blu-ray Disc (Subtitle) - $34.99

Synopsis

Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Bu�uel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a tree, and gang-raped. It turns out that this is only a daydream, but her subsequent visits to a neighboring brothel, where she offers her services, certainly seem to be real. This illusion/reality dichotomy extends to the final scenes, in which we are offered two possible endings. Thanks to a question of copyright and ownership, Belle de Jour disappeared from view shortly after its 1967 release, not even resurfacing on videotape. When it was reissued theatrically in 1994, many critics placed the perplexing but mesmerizing film on their lists of that year's best films. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Sound

Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel/monaural

Languages/Sound

Fre/Eng

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng

Additional Features

Feature commentary track with Bu�uel scholar Julie Jones English-dubbed track Original U.S. theatrical trailer 1995 re-release trailer Dolby Digital mono sound Widescreen [1.66:1]

Chapters

Side #1 --
0. Chapter Selection
1. Opening Credits: Confounding Thoughts of Pain [7:25]
2. Boring Husson [3:22]
3. An Old Friend and an Older Profession [2:04]
4. Unsettling Nerves [3:16]
5. "A Cute Compulsion" [4:13]
6. "Madame Ana�s Modes" [4:12]
7. Mr. Adolphe's Christening [9:35]
8. Remorse and Expiation [3:48]
9. Pleasing the Professor? [7:36]
10. Growing at Ease [3:59]
11. A Duke in Mourning [6:38]
12. Evolving Emotions [2:49]
13. Fear and Passion [5:22]
14. Closeness From Afar [3:27]
15. Quieting Marcel's Desires [2:03]
16. Chocolates for Pierre [5:10]
17. Belle Departs [5:16]
18. Marcel's Vengeance [3:49]
19. Return to Dreams [6:14]

Cast

Francis Blanche - Monsieur Adolphe
Michel Charrel - Footman
Maria Latour - Mathilde
Fran�ois Maistre - L'ensignant
Georges Marchal - The Duke
Macha Meril - Renee Fevret
Bernard Musson - Majordomo
Muni - Pallas
Brigitte Parmentier - Severine enfant
Genevi�ve Page - Madame Anais
Francisco Rabal - Hyppolite
Michel Piccoli - Henri Husson
Claude Cerval
Pierre Cl�menti - Marcel
Dominique Dandrieux - Severine as a child
Catherine Deneuve - Severine Serizy
Marc Eyraud - Barman
Fran�oise Fabian - Charlotte
Jean Sorel - Pierre Serizy
Bernard Fresson - Le Gr�le
Iska Khan - Asian client
Marcel Charvey - Professor Henri
Brigitte Parmentier - Severine as a child
Jeanne Sorel - Pierre Serizy
Catherine Deneuve - S�verine Serizy

Crew

Producer: Raymond Hakim ,Robert Hakim
Editor: Louisette Hautecoeur ,Walter Spohr
Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny
Screenwriter: Luis Bu�uel
Producer: Luis Bu�uel
Director: Luis Bu�uel
Art Director: Robert Clavel
Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carri�re
Book Author: Joseph Kessel
Costume/Wardrobe: Yves St. Laurent ,Yves Saint Laurent

Belle de Jour: AMG Review
Tom Wiener , AMG

Director Luis Bu�uel's first film in color, Belle de Jour also kicked off the last phase of his great career, which produced some of his most popular films (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire). Catherine Deneuve serves Bu�uel here as Grace Kelly did Alfred Hitchcock, as the glacially beautiful blonde who is barely concealing smoldering desires. S�verine, Deneuve's character, finds that marriage is not the beginning of contentment, but a key which unlocks the doors of her abusive past to allow her imagination to run unfettered. How many of the film's events are "real" is left up to the viewer; Bu�uel clearly wants to blur the distinctions between S�verine's erotic dreams and her attempts to fulfill them. A lesser filmmaker would wallow in the prurience of the story of a sexually frustrated wife turning to prostitution; for Bu�uel, however, making films about sex is about exploring much more than human desire and physical contact. What makes his approach unique is its playfulness; he can have it both ways, provoking the audience one moment and winking the next, as if to say, "This thing we call life, it's a big joke, isn't it?" ~ Tom Wiener, All Movie Guide

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