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"Belle De Jour"
1967
Directed by Luis Bunuel

A masterpiece from Luis Bunuel in which Catherine Deneuve captivates us as a respectable middle-class wife with a very contented husband, who finds a day job in a brothel that gives her an outlet for deeper, darker passions. "Bunuel constructs both a clear portrait of the bourgeoisie as degenerate, dishonest and directionless, and an unhysterical depiction of Deneuve's inner fantasy life where she entertains dreams of humiliations galore" (Geoff Andrew). French with English subtitles. 100 minutes.