11th edition CIFF – 9-13 April 2025

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Belle de Jour

France, Italy | 1967 | 101 min | French | e.s.

The 50th anniversary release of Luis Buñuel's dark, beautiful, and somewhat surreal tale demonstrates the film's enduring significance. Séverine (Catherine Deneuve, then 27 years old) is married to the handsome surgeon Pierre (Jean Soire); they look like the ideal couple on the surface. Their apartment shows exquisite taste; everything has its place, but Pierre's place is not in his wife's bed.
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During her free afternoons, Séverine works – as Belle de Jour – in a high-class brothel. Flashbacks provide subtle insight into her psyche, hinting at a troubled past marked by abuse, guilt, and shame that have been suppressed throughout her life. The world of paid sex and role-play degradation contrasts with the theatrical illusion of her respectable ordinariness.

Catherine Deneuve and Luis Buñuel deliver a story of truth, fiction, and fantasy, in which a woman perhaps seeks to free herself from the ghosts of her past. Belle de Jour, even after 50 years, remains a must-see.

Place: The Cinemas 

Date: April 12 

Time: 10:00 

Duration:101 min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 13 

Time: 13:00

Duration:101 min

Year in
Festival

2025

Director

Luis Buñuel

Country

France, Italy

Language

French

Length

101

Year of Production

1967