Belle de jour

Resource Information

The work Belle de jour represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Belle de jour

Statement of responsibility

co-production Paris Film Production, Five Film Rome ; Robert et Raymond Hakim présentent ; un film de Luis Buñuel ; adaptation et dialogue, Luis Buñuel et Jean-Claude Carrière ; une production Robert et Raymond Hakim

Contributor

• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Hakim, Robert, 1907-1992
• Fabian, Françoise, 1932-
• Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-
• Hautecoeur, Louisette
• Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979
• Clémenti, Pierre, 1942-1999
• Khan, Iska
• Latour, Maria, 1943-
• Clavel, Robert, 1912-1991
• Five Film Rome
• Hakim, Raymond, 1909-1980
• Maistre, François
• Charvey, Marcel
• Marchal, Georges, 1920-1997
• Charrel, Michel, 1936-
• Muni, 1929-1999
• Cerval, Claude
• Musson, Bernard, 1925-2010
• Méril, Macha, 1940-
• Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-2021
• Nourry, Hélène
• Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983
• Page, Geneviève
• Blanche, Francis
• Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020
• Paris Film Production
• Rabal, Francisco, 1926-2001
• Sorel, Jean, 1934-
• Janus Films
• Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001

Actor

• Blanche, Francis
• Sorel, Jean, 1934-
• Rabal, Francisco, 1926-2001
• Piccoli, Michel, 1925-2020
• Page, Geneviève
• Méril, Macha, 1940-
• Musson, Bernard, 1925-2010
• Muni, 1929-1999
• Marchal, Georges, 1920-1997
• Maistre, François
• Latour, Maria, 1943-
• Khan, Iska
• Fabian, Françoise, 1932-
• Deneuve, Catherine, 1943-
• Clémenti, Pierre, 1942-1999
• Charvey, Marcel
• Charrel, Michel, 1936-
• Cerval, Claude

Artistic director

• Clavel, Robert, 1912-1991

Cinematographer

• Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001

Costume designer

• Nourry, Hélène

Director

• Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983

Film editor

• Hautecoeur, Louisette

Interviewee

• Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-2021

Producer

• Hakim, Raymond, 1909-1980
• Hakim, Robert, 1907-1992

Screenwriter

• Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-2021
• Buñuel, Luis, 1900-1983

Subject

• Feature films -- Italy
• Prostitutes -- Drama
• Film adaptations
• Foreign language films -- French
• Frigidity (Psychology) -- Drama
• Feature films
• Kessel, Joseph, 1898-1979 -- Film adaptations
• Feature films -- France
• Motion pictures -- France
• Motion pictures -- Italy
• Erotic films
• Prostitution -- France | Paris -- Drama
• Fiction films

Genre

• Motion pictures
• Foreign language films
• Film adaptations
• Fiction films
• Feature films
• Erotic films
• Drama

Language

• fre
• eng
• fre
• fre

Summary

Séverine, a Paris housewife, begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions

Member of

• Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs), 593

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Sacha Vierny ; editor, Louisette Hautecœr ; production designer, Robert Clavel ; costume designer, Hélène Nourry

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R

Language note

French dialogue with optional English subtitles

LC call number

• PN1995.9 .F67
• PN1997

LC item number

• B45 2012
• .B79431322 2005

PerformerNote

Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page, Pierre Clementi, Françoise Fabian, Macha Meril, Muni, Maria Latour, Claude Cerval, Michel Charrel, Iska Khan, Bernard Musson, Marcel Charvey, François Maistre, Francisco Rabal, Georges Marchal, Francis Blanche

Runtime

100

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

593

Technique

live action