One of Buñuel best and most famous films, made during the extremely fruitful Francophone period that ended his career, Belle du Jour stars Catherine Deneuve as a frigid Parisian housewife who can only find sexual release by whoring herself out on weekday afternoons (when her surgeon husband is at work.) Deneuve is ravishing and impenetrable as Belle, and Michel Piccoli is wonderfully smarmy and sleazy as a socialit who wants to bed Belle until he runs across her at the upscale brother where she works, after which he finds her too tainted to be worthy of his desire.
