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Belle de jour is a 1967 French film starring Catherine Deneuve. The film was directed by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel. It is based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Joseph Kessel.

Plot

Séverine Serizy is a young, beautiful Paris housewife who has masochistic daydream fantasies about elaborate floggings and bondage. She is married to a doctor and loves him, but cannot share physical intimacy with him. A male friend mentions a high-class brothel to Séverine, and soon she secretly tries to work there during the afternoon (using the pseudonym Belle de jour). The brothel is run by Madame Anais, played by Geneviève Page. Séverine will only work up until five o'clock each day, returning to her blissfully unaware husband in the evening. Her husband, Pierre, is played by Jean Sorel.

Cast

Catherine Deneuve
- Séverine Serizy aka Belle de Jour
Jean Sorel - Pierre Serizy
Michel Piccoli
- Henri Husson
Geneviève Page - Madame Anais
Pierre Clémenti - Marcel
Georges Marchal
- Duke
Françoise Fabian - Charlotte
Macha Méril - Renée
Muni - Pallas
Maria Latour - Mathilde

Trivia

The song 'My Lover's Box' by US rock group Garbage was inspired, in part at least, by the movie.
The pseudonymous British writer Belle de Jour is presumably named after this film.

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