Title
Belle de jour [videorecording] / co-production Paris Film Production, Five Film Rome ; Robert et Raymond Hakim présentent ; un film de Luis Buñuel ; adaptation et dialogue, Luis Buñuel et Jean-Claude Carrière ; une production Robert et Raymond Hakim.
Notes
Based on the book by Joseph Kessel.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1967.
Special features: Commentary by film professor Michael Wood; "That obscure source of desire" documentary featurette with activist Susie Bright and professor Linda Williams (2011); "Jean-Claude Carrière" interview (2011); "Cinéma" television program segment interviewing Jean-Claude Carrière and Catherine Deneuve (1966); Trailers. Booklet: "Tough love" essay by Melissa Anderson; "Buñuel on Belle de jour" interview with Luis Buñuel.
Director of photography, Sacha Vierny ; editor, Louisette Hautecœr ; production designer, Robert Clavel ; costume designer, Hélène Nourry.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.
Credits
Director of photography, Sacha Vierny ; editor, Louisette Hautecœr ; production designer, Robert Clavel ; costume designer, Hélène Nourry.
Cast
Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clementi, Françoise Fabian, Macha Meril, Muni, Maria Latour, Claude Cerval, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, François Maistre, Francisco Rabal, Georges Marchal, Francis Blanche.