Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Belle de Jour (1967)

Possibly my least-favorite Bunuel...

Although that has far more to do with how stupefyingly briliant his other films are...because I thought this was excellent (after A Short Film about Love earlier, another excellent meditation on love, sex and obsession, although this was far more surreal thanks to the master (would anyone be able to tell me what the hell exactly she and Herron were doing under the table with the lillies in the envelope? Same with the guy when she was in the coffin )

And as if I didn't love Deneuve enough...
she's like Brigitte Bardot except she's a brilliant actress and she's more attractive and aged better, haha...

Put it at #5 in my list of 1967 (behind Le Samourai, Bonnie & Clyde, Cool Hand Luke and The Graduate)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

With all due respect I disagree here. This film IS 'better' than your 3 choices for 1967 (I'm excluding Le Samourai since I haven't seen it).
It's a masterpiece in my book (10/10), but yeah, there's no rule for 'liking' Cinematic masterpieces, LOL.
Great photo (as usual)! Kudos!

MK