But Belle de Jour is Bufiuel. Spanish Director Luis Bufiuel is 68, deaf and an acknowledged alcoholic; he has claimed that this—his 27th picture—will be his last.

At their most interesting, movies about sex work double as a look at the realities of life within capitalism, where desire and base human instincts are commodified and sold like any other product.

A new restoration of the 1967 film “Belle de Jour” opens Friday. Below is The Times’ original review from Dec. 19, 1968. It is one of life’s surprising ironies that the great Spanish ...

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Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Belle de Jour Friday, May 9, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library).

In a similar way, audiences have been drawn back to Belle De Jour for 40 years, using the film as a spyhole into the mind and fantasies of this frustrated young woman.

The series, based on the pseudonymously-posted blogs, books and Telegraph column of 'Belle De Jour' (named after the 1967 Catherine Deneuve film, and later revealed to be academic scientist Brooke ...

In Brief: That most playful of surrealists Luis Buñuel had one of his greatest successes with his 1967 essay in erotica Belle de Jour — in part, I suspect, because it is one of his least ...