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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Belle de jour (1967, France)

Only the French, I'm telling you. Catherine Deneuve, who I have to say is a very good actress, is a young woman who is in love with her new husband but frigid in bed. So while her husband is at work, she ends up spending her afternoons as a prostitute while staying chaste in her marriage.

Obviously this was supposed to be a commentary on women's desires and how psychological traumas can pervert these desires. Not a bad concept, but I think it could have been executed better. Then again, maybe it was just dated.

Rating: 2.5