Before watching my final movie, I started to watch L’Age D’Or by Luis Bunuel, but honestly, that movie was extremely weird and it was in black in white. It started with a short movie about the life of scorpions and then went on how they attack rats to some old guy praying in costumes. I was like HELL NAH so I decided to switch for Belle de Jour, a film created in 1967 by the same author from the previous movie, Luis Bunuel.
Severine is the main character of this movie. She is married to a man named Pierre, who is a doctor. They don’t seem to have the best marriage, because starting from the beginning of the movie, she doesn’t seem to be sexually satisfied. Severine is a beautiful woman who has some masochistic fantasies. Eventually in the movie, she talks to an old friend and they address the subject of this house, where people go to have “fun”. The name of the house is “Maison d’Anaïs”. La Maison d’Anaïs is a bordel/ a prostitute house. She eventually goes there and starts working there under the name of Belle De Jour, because she is only offering her services in the afternoon.
Later on, one of her clients, Marcel, gets really intense and obsessed with her. She then stops going to the house because of him. He was extremely jealous of her husband, then finds out her real name and her address. He threatens her to tell her husband everything.
Marcel gets so crazy that he tries to kill Pierre. He shoots him. Unfortunately for Marcel, Pierre survives, but gets really bad. He is now blind and paralyzed. After that, I won’t lie, I didn’t finish the movie because it was getting really late and I couldn’t focus anymore.
Overall, I give this movie 3.5 ratings. It was for sure different and for an old movie, I enjoyed it. There was a lot of action and I listened to it in French which was great. Last semester I had a French Film Class and honestly, the movies were pretty bad, but this one I enjoyed it. I recommend this movie if you have some time and want to watch an old movie.
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