Catherine Deneuve is captivating in Luis Buñuel’s BELLE DE JOUR
BELLE DE JOUR (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
BAMcinématek
BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
Sunday, March 13, 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15
Series runs through March 31
718-636-4100
www.bam.org
Based on the 1928 novel by Joseph Kessel, whose L’armée des ombres was turned into Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 French Resistance drama Army of Shadows, Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour stars the elegant Catherine Deneuve as Séverine Serizy, a bored housewife who finds the excitement she’s missing at home by becoming a high-class prostitute by day, when her husband (Jean Sorel) is at work. But when one of her clients, Marcel (Pierre Clémenti), starts falling for her, her life turns more complicated than she’s ever imagined in all her fantasies. Buñuel won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for this erotically charged story that features a shocking ending.Belle de Jour is screening March 13 as part of BAMcinématek’s “Deneuve” series, which continues through March 31 with such films as Le Sauvage (Call Me Savage) (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1975), Don’t Touch the White Woman (Touche pas à la femme blanche) (Marco Ferreri, 1975), Scene of the Crime (Le lieu du crime) (André Téchiné, 1986), and Donkey Skin (Peau d’âne) (Jacques Demy, 1970).