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Plot Summary
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and its viewers’), as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions. Fantasy and reality commingle in this burst of cinematic transgression, which was one of Buñuel’s biggest hits.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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95%- Reviews Counted: 42
- Fresh: 40
- Rotten: 2
- Average Rating: 8.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Every detail has been so carefully thought out that seeing it again is like seeing it in another key.
Fresh: This silly little masterpiece regards Deneuve as the goddess of light she really was -- a figment of our collective appetite for the unreal.
Fresh: A wise, enormously enjoyable film about the power of fantasy -- a toast to the importance of dreams.
Fresh: Of all the supposedly challenging attractions playing locally in our supposedly more enlightened era, the most compellingly erotic and entertaining spectacle is still provided by Belle de Jour
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