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Belle de Jour 1967 123movies

Belle de Jour 1967 123movies

Luis Bunuel's Masterpiece of Erotica!May. 24, 1967101 Min.
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Watch: Belle de jour 1967 123movies, Full Movie Online – Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage..
Plot: 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.
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A blunt surprise insofar as the movies stark depictions of both a young woman’s eccentric erotic fantasies alongside a rather harsh alternative lifestyle. In the middle there is a very conventional and ordinary real life tale of a married couple where the husband has no idea what’s going on within his wife’s mind, and life, both past and present.

Reality and fantasy seem to blend in a young woman’s mind implicitly suggestive of prior experiences that influenced the lead character’s real and imaginary manifestations. Not for children.

Review By: lwpcolonel

A wonderful parable of love, relationships and the place in both for fantasy and imagination. Certainly much more enjoyable to watch, not to mention better acted and directed, than recent delvings into that subject matter, like Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (though that wasn’t the latter’s point). Intensely beautifully photographed, with wonderful performances, most especially by Catherine Deneuve. You can’t go wrong with 60’s and 70’s Bunuel, that’s for sure.
Review By: talisencrw
Great exercise in surrealism
“Belle de Jour” is generally considered to be director Luis Bunuel’s masterpiece; a surprisingly revealing and seemingly personal venture into the world of eroticism and its deviances. It’s a truly surrealistic exercise in ambiguity, fantasy, and reality. The line that separates them is blurred so much that the famously mysterious ending has had critics arguing for decades over its meaning.

The fantasy sequences are usually signalled by the sound of carriage bells, but by the end of the film the viewer is no longer able to differentiate between what is another one of Severine’s fantasies and what is reality. Even Bunuel admitted to not knowing himself. He said that “by the end, the real and imaginary fuse; for me they form the same thing.” The gorgeous Catherine Deneuve, resplendent in her icy prime, portrays Severine Sevigny, the middle-class wife of Pierre, a doctor. She is frigid, virginal, yet seemingly happy enough in her bourgeoisie life and its trappings. However, upon hearing about a local clandestine brothel from a friend, she pays a visit to the madame, and becomes a prostitute, going by the name of “Belle de Jour”, as she can only work in the afternoons. She apparently fully realizes and enjoys her sexuality, despite her guilty conscience, exclaiming that she “can’t help it”. She certainly doesn’t need the money. She’s bored with her life and her marriage, needing a “firm hand” to lead her; a need which the madame, Anais, who is obviously attracted to her, almost immediately recognizes. Her sweet and conventional husband is unaware, treating her much like a child, and the audience cannot help but believe that even if he knew of her true nature, he would not understand or empathize. She keeps her two worlds neatly separate until a patron of hers (whom she herself enjoys) becomes obsessed with her, and all is threatened.

That Alfred Hithcock in particular admired this film comes as no surprise to me; Deneuve would have been the perfect Hitchcock heroine: an icy blonde who becomes “a whore in the bedroom”, as Hitchock was fond of saying he preferred in his leading ladies. But this remark is not meant to simplify the story, its telling, or Deneuve’s remarkable performance, which is what truly draws the viewer into the film.

“Belle de Jour” was Bunuel’s first foray into the use of color, and he employed it to great effect. From the fall colors displayed in the landscape scenes, to the subtle shades in Deneuve’s clothing, the contrasts are set. While the world around her explodes in glorious hues, Deneuve’s character is defined by her couture, if staid, wardrobe of tan, black, and white.

“Belle de Jour” was unreleased for many years due to copyright problems, but finally re-released in 1995 through the efforts of director Martin Scorcese, and released on DVD in 2003. I’ve watched it twice in the past week and am still at a loss to describe it very well; suffice to say that I am in awe. It’s an amazingly erotic film without any explicitness, and one that I expect hasn’t lost any of its effect over the years. As the subject matter is handled very tactfully and without any actual sex scenes; a great deal is left to the viewer’s imagination – which only serves the heighten the mysteries inherent at every turn in the film. The viewer is however drawn into the sense of feeling to be a voyeur into Severine’s secret life; the careful choreography of scenes and camera angles contribute to the uncomfortable sense of intrusion by us, the viewers.

There are many sub-stories and small mysteries in the film; for instance one of the most widely debated upon by critics is the mystery of “what is in the Asian client’s little box?” that he presents first to one prostitute, who quickly refuses, then to Severine, who tentatively agrees. All the audience know is that it’s something with a insect-like noise, and when the client leaves, Severine is sprawled face-down upon the bed, the sheets thrown about, and obviously pleased with whatever took place in the interim.

“Belle de Jour” was awarded the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival, as well as the award for Best Foreign Film in 1968 from the New York Film Critics Circle.

Interesting side notes: Bunuel himself had a shoe fetish, which helps explain the numerous shots of Deneuve’s beautifully clad feet throughout the film, and the fact that every time she goes shopping, she buys shoes. He also appears in the film in a cameo as a cafe patron, and in another scene his hands are shown loading a gun.

Review By: ClassicAndCampFilmReviews
Overrated
There 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 Buñuel’s Belle De Jour- his 1967 foray into color film, based upon the same titled novel of Joseph Kessler, released in 1928.

The film has been described as an ‘erotic masterpiece,’ but forty years later one is left with a film that has so little sex in it that it could pass as a PG film if released today, as well as lacking all eros. Mild sex scenes are not, by definition, eros, and it’s difficult to believe that anyone watching this film could have been shocked, much less aroused by a single scene in it. Yes, young Catherine Deneuve, as bored bourgeois hausfrau Séverine Serizy, is her typical gorgeous self, but having seen her in several of her later roles, plus her featured role in Roman Polanski’s Repulsion, I seriously must question whether she could really act. In Polanski’s film, she plays a neurotic, sexually stifled woman who sleepwalks through her descent to murderess, after what was likely a childhood of sexual abuse. Similarly, her character of Séverine was sexually abused (seen through flashbacks, and after which she refuses communion), but unlike the Repulsion heroine/villain, is not repulsed by raw sex, but attracted to the filthy sadomasochistic aspects of it…. Had Bergman made this film it would have been far subtler and better. That Alfred Hitchcock, by contrast, loved this film, says a lot, for his own films were equally dependent upon hamhanded views of sexuality, and most are equally outdated, as well, for that very reason. Apologists for the film claim that it allows viewers to bring their own thoughts and experiences into the film. Well, most films do, so that’s not a great argument. Belle De Jour fails for the opposite reason; it lacks a core- emotionally, philosophically, and technically, masquing it all with claims of Surrealism- that label used to cover and alibi for all manner of bad art.

In short, this film does not even walk the walk, and Buñuel is not in a league with such filmmakers as Werner Herzog nor Antonioni, as far as symbolism goes. Belle De Jour may have titillated audiences four decades ago, but today it simply plays out as a wan and silly- as well as poorly wrought, exploration of a dull woman’s sexual life, and how that keeps her deluded and miserable. One need not pay to see such, when a trip to the local supermarket can give you dozens of more interesting female subjects to choose from.

Review By: Cosmoeticadotcom

Other Information:

Original Title Belle de jour
Release Date 1967-05-24
Release Year 1967

Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Luis Buñuel
Writer Joseph Kessel, Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Country France, Italy
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award7 wins & 7 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System), Dolby (25th Anniversary Version)
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Eastmancolor (color)
Film Length 2,726 m (Germany), 2,797 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP), 35 mm

Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Belle de Jour 1967 123movies
Original title Belle de jour
TMDb Rating 7.415 686 votes

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