EPISODE · Jul 28, 2021 · 52 MIN
Belle de Jour (1967 Venice Film Festival Award Winner)
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The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner, Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour. Directed and co-written by Luis Buñuel (based on the novel by Joseph Kessel) and starring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page and Pierre Clementi, Belle de Jour won the Golden Lion and the Pasinetti Award at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-belle-de-jour-archive-20180412-story.html), Manny Farber in Artforum (https://www.artforum.com/print/196806/la-chinoise-carabiniers-and-belle-de-jour-38407), and Paul Schrader in the Los Angeles Free Press (https://paulschrader.org/articles/pdf/1969-BelledeJour.pdf).Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night.
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The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner, Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour. Directed and co-written by Luis Buñuel (based on the novel by Joseph Kessel) and starring Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Jean Sorel, Genevieve Page and Pierre Clementi, Belle de Jour won the Golden Lion and the Pasinetti Award at the 1967 Venice Film Festival.
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