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)