Chinese Version

Belle De Jour (France/Italy)

Beauty of The Day

　Experience depravity

Director: Luis Buňuel

Cast: Catherine Deneuve  Jean Sorel  Michel Piccoli

Footage: 105min

Year: 1967 

Severine, a wealthy but bored newlywed, eagers to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a tree, and gang-raped. It turns out that this is only a daydream, but her subsequent visits to a neighboring brothel, where she offers her services at each afternoon, certainly seem to be real. Buňuel clearly wants to blur the distinctions between Severine's erotic dreams and her attempts to fulfill them. This illusion/reality dichotomy extends to the final scenes, in which we are offered two possible endings.

Works of the same director：

Un Chien Andalou

El

References:

Standing the Test of Time

Belle du Jour (James Berardinelli)

Belle du Jour (Bryant Frazer)

Belle du Jour (Roger Ebert)