Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
- adultery
- prostitute
- jealousy
- dreams
- husband wife relationship
- dual identity
- double life
- sexual frustration
- brothel
- women's sexual identity
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Catherine Deneuve
Séverine Serizy
Jean Sorel
Pierre Serizy
Michel Piccoli
Henri Husson
Geneviève Page
Madame Anais
- Pierre Clémenti — Marcel
- Françoise Fabian — Charlotte
- Macha Méril — Renée
- Muni — Pallas
- Maria Latour — Mathilde
- Claude Cerval — The Driver (uncredited)
- Michel Charrel — Footman
- Iska Khan — Asian Client
- Bernard Musson — Majordomo
- Marcel Charvey — Prof. Henri
- François Maistre — The Teacher
- Directed
- Luis Buñuel
- Written
- Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 1,026 ratings
- Studio
- Paris Films Productions, Five Films, Robert et Raymond Hakim
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
