Movie
Belle de Jour
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1967-05-24
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Paris Films Productions, Five Films, Robert et Raymond Hakim
- Country
- France, Italy
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy
- Jean Sorel as Pierre Serizy
- Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson
- Geneviève Page as Madame Anais
- Pierre Clémenti as Marcel
- Françoise Fabian as Charlotte
- Macha Méril as Renée
- Muni as Pallas
- Maria Latour as Mathilde
- Claude Cerval as The Driver (uncredited)
- Michel Charrel as Footman
- Iska Khan as Asian Client
Crew
- Luis Buñuel - Director
- Luis Buñuel - Screenplay
- Jean-Claude Carrière - Screenplay
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