Belle de Jour Luis Buñuel [videorecording]=
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TextLanguage: French Summary language: English Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 593 | Buñuel: The Essential CollectionPublication details: France Janus Films Robert et Raymond Hakim Paris Film Productions Five Film 2012Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) 1 Blu-ray disc (ca. 100 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inLOC classification: - PN1997 .B455 1967
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SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A | PN1997 .B455 1967 | Available | Buñuel: The Essential Collection (Blu-ray). French or English audio. Optional English subtitles. | 002467 | |
Books
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SILC Learning Support Services DH132AA - Receiption/Circulation | PN1997 .B455 1967 | Available | The Criterion Collection. | 002364 | |
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DVD - Video
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SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A | PN1997 .B455 1967 | Available | The Criterion Collection (DVD). French audio. Optional English subtitles. | 002327 |
Based on the novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel.
Special features include:
[The Criterion Collection]
- Audio commentary featuring Micheal Wood, author of the BFI Film Classics book Belle de jour
- Video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright and film scholar Linda Williams
- Interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
- Segment from the French television program Cinèma featuring interviews with Carrière and actress Catherine Deneuve
- A booklet featuring an essay by critic Melissa Anderson and a 1970s interview with director Luis Buñuel
[Buñuel: The Essential Collection]
- Commentary by Professor Peter W.Evans
- The Last Script
- A Story of Perversion Or Emancipation? - Interview Dr Sylvain Mimoun
- Interview with Jean-Claude Carrière
- Masterclass with Diego Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
From case cover:
[The Criterion Collection]
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.
[Buñuel: The Essential Collection]
Undoubtedly Luis Buñuel's most accessible film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintain as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut. Screen icon Catherine Deneuve plays Severine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs cold with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she mets a charismatic but sinister young gangster (Pierre Clémenti), and ignites an obsession that will court peril. The film won the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.
From IMDb:
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.
[The Criterion Collection]
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
[Buñuel: The Essential Collection]
Blu-ray video; DTS HD 1.0; monaural; 1080p; Regions B; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
[The Criterion Collection]
French audio. Optional English subtitles.
[Buñuel: The Essential Collection]
French or English audio. Optional English subtitles.
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