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Belle de Jour

DVD More Info Region Code: 1 UPC: 715515088916 Languages: French (Primary), English subtitles	Usually ships in 5-10 days	$27.99 (6% off) List Price: ~~$29.99~~
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Review

Buñuel's kinky skewering of bourgeois pretensions stars a luminous Deneuve as a terminally bored doctor's wife who escapes her ennui in bizarre, masochistic sexual daydreams. These fantasies turn to reality when she lands an afternoon shift at a high-class Parisian brothel where she is given the titular alias. Belle de Jour is a mostly cerebral but masterful and at times giddy dialectic on sexual repression, the Church and the meaningless, philistine lives of the upper classes. As usual, Buñuel mixes fantasy, reality and flashback to the point where the viewer is pressed to wonder which is real. Deneuve is hypnotic as the wistful Belle, whose desire for sexual humiliation seems to be her only avenue for rebellion against the constraints of her social position. Page is in fine form as the Belle's madam, a lesbian who fancies the icy beauty of her newest protégé. (French with English subtitles)

Product Format Information

DVD : $27.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515088916

Studio : Criterion

Languages: French (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.66, Widescreen
Extras: Trailers
Features:
New high-definition digital restoration
Audio commentary: Audio commentary featuring Michael Wood, author of the book Belle de jour
New video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright
Interview(s): New interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere
Excerpt from the French television program Cinema, featuring interviews
New and improved English subtitle translation
Booklet: Featuring an essay by critic Melissa Anderson

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Blu-ray : $37.99

Availability: Usually ships in
5-10 days
Region Code: 1
UPC: 715515088817

Studio : Criterion

Languages: French (Primary) , English Subtitles
Aspect Ratio: 1.66, Widescreen
Extras: Trailers
Features:
New high-definition digital restoration
Audio commentary: Audio commentary featuring Michael Wood, author of the book Belle de jour
New video piece featuring writer and sexual-politics activist Susie Bright
Interview(s): New interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere
Excerpt from the French television program Cinema, featuring interviews
New and improved English subtitle translation
Booklet: Featuring an essay by critic Melissa Anderson