Belle de Jour: Buñuel's Elegant Study of Fantasy

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Luis Buñuel was sixty-seven when he made Belle de Jour, an age at which most directors are either repeating themselves or retired. He had spent four decades scandalising the pious, going back to the sliced eyeball of Un Chien Andalou in 1929, and he approached this material — a bourgeois wife who spends her afternoons working in a discreet Paris brothel — with the amused patience of a man who has nothing left to prove. The result took the Golden Lion at Venice in 1967 and became, improbably, one of the most elegant films ever assembled around the subject of erotic fantasy. It is also one of the least explicit. That combination is the whole trick.

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Belle de Jour: Buñuel's Elegant Study of Fantasy