Belle de jour

SYNOPSIS

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage.
Belle de Jour tells the story of a frigid young woman who spends her weekday afternoons as a prostitute while her husband is at work. Considered as Buñuel's most successful and most famous surrealistic "classic,” the movie won the Golden Lion and the Pasinetti Award for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in 1967. Many of Deneuve's costumes were designed by the famous designer Yves St. Laurent.