 |
| Belle de Jour |
In a modern twist on Flaubert's Emma Bovary, the elegant and sublimely beautiful Séverine (Catherine Deneuve, dressed by Yves Saint Laurent) is married to a successful doctor, yet is emotionally sealed off in matters of physical intimacy.
Unmoved by her handsome young husband's solicitude, Séverine opts instead for a little afternoon subjugation in a Parisian brothel.
A childhood trauma is intimated in a brief flashback, but in Buñuel's cool, cryptic film the line between remembered events and Séverine's excursions into ever more bizarre erotic fantasy becomes increasingly tenuous.
