At the center of the film is Séverine Serizy, played with icy, hypnotic perfection by Catherine Deneuve.
A Masterclass in Subconscious Cinema Luis Buñuel’s 1967 masterpiece, Belle de Jour , remains one of the most provocative and elegantly executed explorations of human desire ever committed to film. Adapted from the 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel, the film is much less an explicit erotic thriller and more a deeply psychological, surrealist examination of the female subconscious and bourgeois repression. 👁️ The Paradox of Séverine Belle De Jour