BELLE DE JOUR Catherine Deneuve [SUBTITLES in CC] "Let the cats in?" dir. Buñuel | SCENE
Death and the maiden. On a journey through a series of fetishistic misadventures, Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) is psychoanalyzed by the director--in this scene with the Freudian connection between sex and death--and at the end of the film she reaches therapeutic absolution. A mystifying work, this movie's texture is woven from dreams, reality, and Séverine's fantasies. Just which is which, and what, is both right there on the screen and also buried deeply in unconscious symbolism.
1967. Dir. Luis Buñuel. Starring Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Pierre Clémenti, Geneviève Page, and Georges Marchal as the funereal Duke. Also with Muni. Wri. Jean-Claude Carrière and Buñuel. Adapted from the novel by Joseph Kessel. Sound design by René Longuet.
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