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Belle de jour / Michael Wood.
Van Pelt Library PN1997.B27556 W66 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Michael, 1936-
- Series:
- BFI film classics ; 60.
- BFI film classics ; 60
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Belle de jour (Motion picture).
- Physical Description:
- 79 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : BFI Publishing, 2000.
- Summary:
- Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a listless haute bourgeouise wife with a secret afternoon life of prostitution. Her life twists repression and guilt together with uninhibited behaviour, strangled libido with its liberated counterpart.
- Luis Bunuel was catapulted into cinematic history by his groundbreaking Dali collaboration, Un Chien Andalou, in 1929, but it is Belle de Jour (1967) which inaugurates the extraordinary late phase of his work. It is a film shimmering with reflections on truth, fiction and fantasy, in addition to caustic social insight, as it tells the story of a woman clearing her mind, perhaps, of its ghosts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0851708234
- OCLC:
- 45314956
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