Belle de Jour

Luis Buñuel (director, screenwriter)
Joseph Kessel (novel)
Raymond Voinquel (photographer)
Jean-Claude Carriere (screenwriter)
STACatherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli (starring)

Glendale, CA: Allied Artists, 1968. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1967 French film.

Buñuel's first color film, about a bored and directionless young housewife who begins working in a brothel while her husband is at work, with tragic consequences for him and a jealous client involved in organized crime. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.

Set in and shot on location in Paris.

8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art. Rosenbaum 1000. Ebert I. Criterion Collection 593.


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