BELLE DE JOUR

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, Jan 26 2:30 PM

Description

International Classics
BELLE DE JOUR
Sunday, January 26th at 2:30 PM
Hosted by Fred Craden
$16 Public | $10 Members

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. (1967, 100 mins)