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Criterion // 1967 // 100 Minutes // Rated R Reviewed by Judge Brett Cullum // February 8th, 2012 View Judge Cullum's Dossier E-mail Judge Cullum Printer Friendly Review Madame Anais: "I have an idea.

The classic film Belle de Jour marked the international breakthrough role of French film legend Catherine Deneuve.

According to the film's co-scenarist, Jean-Claude Carrire, the great psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan was once asked to present a lecture on female masochism.

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You could say it was back to black for Jean Paul Gaultier, whose spring-summer couture collection last Wednesday was an ode to the life, style and smoking habits of the late music star Amy Winehouse.

Win a pair of tickets to the Gala Tasting Reception, February 23 at the George Brown College's Centre for Hospitality & Culinary Arts! >> ENTER We are less discreet about sexual matters than people were when Luis Buuel filmed this tale about a bourgeois housewife who takes afternoon shifts at an upscale brothel, but shock and titillation are not at ... (more)

It sounds like the opening line to a shitty Euro pop song, but it is so easy to fall in Love With Catherine Deneuve.

ONE OF SURREALIST director Luis Buuel's most accessible films, "Belle de Jour," is the story of Sverine , a stunningly beautiful and wealthy young woman.

Luis Bunuel's 1967 adaptation of the Joseph Kessel novel Belle de Jour may be tame by today's standards in terms of what we actually see on screen, but the icy tale of sexual peccadilloes and alternative pleasures still has a psychological resonance, bolstered by the director's casual acceptance of fantasy as a means for expression.

In this Saturday, May 21, 2011 file photo actress Catherine Deneuve attends a press conference for "Beloved" at the 64th international film festival in Cannes, southern France.

From 1967,A Luis BuA uel offers Belle de Jour, a subversive comedy in which Catherine Deneuve as a prim housewife discoversA a fascinating lifestyle in a new occupation, working in a Paris brothel.

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Catherine Deneuve's luminous pallor lends a chilly energy to Luis Bunuel's 1967 erotic melodrama "Belle de Jour" . She plays Severine, a high-bourgeois Paris housewife who seeks to overcome her sexual disinterest and put a new spark into her marriage by working days in a high-end brothel.