{"id":157,"date":"2006-12-01T13:49:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T17:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/157"},"modified":"2009-09-11T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:24:31","slug":"belle-de-jour-1967-luis-bunuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/157","title":{"rendered":"Belle de jour (1967, Luis Bunuel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severine is the wife of Pierre (Jean Sorel), but is unhappy with him sexually.  She&#8217;s got a rich fantasy life, though.  Sleigh bells and cats and a horse-drawn carriage lead her into rape-fantasies with coachmen, dreams of being tied up and humiliated and made to play dead.  Family friend Michel Piccoli (of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/820\">The Milky Way<\/a><\/em>, <em>Contempt<\/em> and <em>Diabolik<\/em>) tells Severine about a brothel, which she hesitantly joins.  Hilarity ensues when a customer (Marcel) becomes dangerously infatuated with her, and Piccoli eventually visits the place again, sees Severine there and threatens to tell her husband.  In a jealous fit, Marcel shoots Pierre then is killed by the cops.  Piccoli sits alone with Pierre, now confined to a wheelchair (and blind?) and presumably tells him Severine&#8217;s secret.  The coachmen float us away into fantasy once more.<\/p>\n<p>Terrific looking movie and really great performances.  It&#8217;s got that Bunuel-dream-crawl pacing.  Maybe best watched very late at night.  Doesn&#8217;t make me weary like most Bunuel movies&#8230; probably one of my faves.  Not as sexy as I&#8217;d maybe promised, more bizarre&#8230; sense of danger over sensuality, mostly a tense movie.  Katy sorta liked it I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severine is the wife of Pierre (Jean Sorel), but is unhappy with him sexually. She&#8217;s got a rich fantasy life, though. Sleigh bells and cats and a horse-drawn carriage lead her into rape-fantasies with coachmen, dreams of being tied up and humiliated and made to play dead. Family friend Michel Piccoli (of The Milky Way, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,173,34,6,191],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-catherine-deneuve","tag-france","tag-luis-bunuel","tag-prostitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3191,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}