Luis Buñuel’s BELLE DE JOUR is a masterpiece of erotic mystery. Catherine Deneuve plays a young housewife who works in a high-end Paris brothel by day while maintaining her respectable married life by night.
A surreal and provocative exploration of desire, repression, and fantasy, the film blends cool elegance with flashes of dreamlike strangeness. More than fifty years on, BELLE DE JOUR remains as enigmatic and intoxicating as ever — a landmark in world cinema and a defining role for one of France’s greatest stars.