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Catherine Deneuve and Jean Sorel in... Luis Buñuel's...

Belle de Jour

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1442L )
(1.66:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
No Criterion DVD
French Language with English Subtitles
Optional English dubbed soundtrack
Original and Rerelease Trailers
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Belle de Jour
1967 - 105 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Belle de jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Bu?uel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a tree, and gang-raped. It turns out that this is only a daydream, but her subsequent visits to a neighboring brothel, where she offers her services, certainly seem to be real. This illusion/reality dichotomy extends to the final scenes, in which we are offered two possible endings. Thanks to a question of copyright and ownership, Belle de jour disappeared from view shortly after its 1967 release, not even resurfacing on videotape. When it was re-issued theatrically in 1994, many critics placed the perplexing but mesmerizing film on their lists of that year's best films. --- Hal Erickson

Director Luis Bu?uel's first film in color, Belle De Jour also kicked off the last phase of his great career, which produced some of his most popular films (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire). Catherine Deneuve serves Bu?uel here as Grace Kelly did Alfred Hitchcock, as the glacially beautiful blonde who is barely concealing smoldering desires. Severine, Deneuve's character, finds that marriage is not the beginning of contentment, but a key which unlocks the doors of her abusive past to allow her imagination to run unfettered. How many of the film's events are "real" is left up to the viewer; Bu?uel clearly wants to blur the distinctions between Severine's erotic dreams and her attempts to fulfill them. A lesser filmmaker would wallow in the prurience of the story of a sexually frustrated wife turning to prostitution; for Bu?uel, however, making films about sex is about exploring much more than human desire and physical contact. What makes his approach unique is its playfulness; he can have it both ways, provoking the audience one moment and winking the next, as if to say, "This thing we call life, it's a big joke, isn't it " --- Tom Wiener

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Cast for Belle de Jour

Catherine Deneuve - Severine Serizy
Jean Sorel - Pierre Serizy
Michel Piccoli - Henri Husson
Genevieve Page - Madame Anais
Macha Meril - Renee Fevret
Francisco Rabal - Hyppolite
Pierre Clementi - Marcel
Francis Blanche - Monsieur Adolphe
Francoise Fabian - Charlotte
Maria Latour - Mathilde
Brigitte Parmentier - Severine as a child
Muni - Pallas
Bernard Musson - Majordomo
Claude Cerval
Marcel Charvey - Professor Henri
Dominique Dandrieux - Severine as a child
Michel Charrel - Footman
Georges Marchal - The Duke
Francois Maistre - L'ensignant
Marc Eyraud - Barman
Iska Khan - Asian client
Bernard Fresson - Le Grele

Crew for Belle de Jour

Luis Bu?uel - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
Raymond Hakim - Producer
Robert Hakim - Producer
Jean-Claude Carriere - Screenwriter
Joseph Kessel - Book Author
Sacha Vierny - Cinematographer
Louisette Hautecoeur - Editor
Walter Spohr - Editor
Robert Clavel - Art Director

Awards for Belle de Jour

Competing Film Luis Bu?uel 1967 Venice International Film Festival
Golden Lion (win) Luis Bu?uel 1967 Venice International Film Festival
Best Foreign Film (nom) Luis Bu?uel 1968 New York Film Critics Circle

Feature Details

Title: Belle de Jour
Feature Release Date: 1967
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 105 Minutes
Chapters: 30
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.66:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 20 Dec 1995
Catalog Number: CC1442L
UPC: 0715515007245
ISBN: 1559406992
Manufacturer: Kuraray
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: French
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1442L
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie - No Criterion DVD

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with light ring-wear

Catherine Deneuve and Jean Sorel in... Luis Buñuel's...

Belle de Jour

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1442L )
(1.66:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
No Criterion DVD
French Language with English Subtitles
Optional English dubbed soundtrack
Original and Rerelease Trailers
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...

Belle de Jour
1967 - 105 min. - Color
Genre: Drama
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Belle de jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Bu?uel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life to the fullest. She seemingly gets her wish early in the film when she is kidnapped, tied to a tree, and gang-raped. It turns out that this is only a daydream, but her subsequent visits to a neighboring brothel, where she offers her services, certainly seem to be real. This illusion/reality dichotomy extends to the final scenes, in which we are offered two possible endings. Thanks to a question of copyright and ownership, Belle de jour disappeared from view shortly after its 1967 release, not even resurfacing on videotape. When it was re-issued theatrically in 1994, many critics placed the perplexing but mesmerizing film on their lists of that year's best films. --- Hal Erickson

Director Luis Bu?uel's first film in color, Belle De Jour also kicked off the last phase of his great career, which produced some of his most popular films (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire). Catherine Deneuve serves Bu?uel here as Grace Kelly did Alfred Hitchcock, as the glacially beautiful blonde who is barely concealing smoldering desires. Severine, Deneuve's character, finds that marriage is not the beginning of contentment, but a key which unlocks the doors of her abusive past to allow her imagination to run unfettered. How many of the film's events are "real" is left up to the viewer; Bu?uel clearly wants to blur the distinctions between Severine's erotic dreams and her attempts to fulfill them. A lesser filmmaker would wallow in the prurience of the story of a sexually frustrated wife turning to prostitution; for Bu?uel, however, making films about sex is about exploring much more than human desire and physical contact. What makes his approach unique is its playfulness; he can have it both ways, provoking the audience one moment and winking the next, as if to say, "This thing we call life, it's a big joke, isn't it " --- Tom Wiener

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Cast for Belle de Jour

Catherine Deneuve - Severine Serizy
Jean Sorel - Pierre Serizy
Michel Piccoli - Henri Husson
Genevieve Page - Madame Anais
Macha Meril - Renee Fevret
Francisco Rabal - Hyppolite
Pierre Clementi - Marcel
Francis Blanche - Monsieur Adolphe
Francoise Fabian - Charlotte
Maria Latour - Mathilde
Brigitte Parmentier - Severine as a child
Muni - Pallas
Bernard Musson - Majordomo
Claude Cerval
Marcel Charvey - Professor Henri
Dominique Dandrieux - Severine as a child
Michel Charrel - Footman
Georges Marchal - The Duke
Francois Maistre - L'ensignant
Marc Eyraud - Barman
Iska Khan - Asian client
Bernard Fresson - Le Grele

Crew for Belle de Jour

Luis Bu?uel - Director / Producer / Screenwriter
Raymond Hakim - Producer
Robert Hakim - Producer
Jean-Claude Carriere - Screenwriter
Joseph Kessel - Book Author
Sacha Vierny - Cinematographer
Louisette Hautecoeur - Editor
Walter Spohr - Editor
Robert Clavel - Art Director

Awards for Belle de Jour

Competing Film Luis Bu?uel 1967 Venice International Film Festival
Golden Lion (win) Luis Bu?uel 1967 Venice International Film Festival
Best Foreign Film (nom) Luis Bu?uel 1968 New York Film Critics Circle

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