Let’s not pretend that director Luis Buñuel meant to say anything elevated with this picture or do anything but drag us down into the muck that gets splattered across Catherine Deneuve’s face, as she ...

French Actress Catherine Deneuve is only 24, but she is already a veteran of 22 films in which she has been seduced almost as often as Bardot. She is also France’s fastest-rising female star, and is ...

What do you get when the world’s oldest working filmmaker pays homage to one of the most controversial films of the 1960s? In the case of “Belle Toujours,” 98-year-old Portuguese director Manoel de ...

Belle de Jour dramatizes the collision between depravity and elegance, one of the favorite themes of director Luis Buñuel. Catherine Deneuve stars as a wealthy but bored newlywed, eager to taste life ...

A new restoration of the 1967 film “Belle de Jour” opens Friday. Below is The Times’ original review from Dec. 19, 1968. It is one of life’s surprising ironies that the great Spanish director Luis ...

It's widely recognized as one of the sexiest movies ever made, and now "Belle de Jour" is returning to the big screen for its 50th anniversary. “Belle de Jour,” Luis Buñuel’s erotic drama about a ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. When Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967) hit America in 1968, it was mildly scandalous — even with the newly-minted MPAA R rating. ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

The French beauty shared a brief kiss with Catherine Deneuve in a memorable scene from the Luis Buñuel film about a high-class brothel. By Rhett Bartlett Geneviève Page, the alluring French actress ...

It’s the plot that launched A thousand pornos. A respectable housewife, trapped in a marriage that’s at a sexual standstill, spends her afternoons working in a brothel, fulfilling her fantasies while ...

The actress, 74, has been nominated for an Oscar and won a collection of awards. However, this week she hit headlines for her response to the #MeToo campaign. Here's what we know about her ...

We are less discreet about sexual matters than people were when Luis Buñuel filmed this tale about a bourgeois housewife who takes afternoon shifts at an upscale brothel, but shock and titillation are ...