Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour is a provocative and dreamlike exploration of desire, fantasy, and social convention. Catherine Deneuve stars as Séverine, a seemingly perfect Parisian housewife who secretly spends her afternoons at a brothel, seeking fulfillment beyond the confines of her marriage. Blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination, Buñuel crafts a slyly surreal critique of bourgeois morality and repression in 1960s France. Anchored by Deneuve’s iconic, enigmatic performance, Belle de Jour remains a daring and timeless study of identity, liberation, and the hidden lives we lead.
