Luis Bunuel’s “Belle de Jour”‘ (1967), the story of a respectable young wife who secretly works in a brothel one or two afternoons a week, is possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, perhaps the best. That’s because it understands eroticism from the inside-out — understands how it exists not in sweat and skin, but in the imagination.
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Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
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- Catherine Deneuve as Severine/Belle de Jour
- Jean Sorel as Pierre Serizy
- Michel Piccoli as Henri Husson
- Genevieve Page as Madame Anais
- Pierre Clementi as Marcel
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