What is Belle De Jour / Diary of a Chambermaid about?

BELLE DE JOUR, 1967, Janus Films, 101 min. Housewife and glacial beauty Séverine, frigid at home with her doctor husband, indulges in private erotic fantasies that range from sadomasochistic to scatological. To realize her innermost sexual proclivities, Séverine becomes a prostitute at a local brothel, working only on weekday afternoons and taking on the moniker Belle de Jour. In French with English subtitles. DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, 1964, Rialto Pictures, 101 min. Jeanne Moreau stars as Parisian maid Céléstine, transplanted to the French countryside to clean house at the manor of M. Monteil (Michel Piccoli). What she discovers in her wintry bucolic surroundings is anything but staid country life - shoe fetishes, simmering anti-Semitism and a brutal rape and murder are all pieces of the unsettling debris that rises to the surface in Luis Buñuel’s wicked, kinky take on the upstairs-downstairs genre. In French with English subtitles.

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What is Belle De Jour / Diary of a Chambermaid about?: BELLE DE JOUR, 1967, Janus Films, 101 min. Housewife and glacial beauty Séverine, frigid at home with her doctor husband, indulges in private erotic fantasies that range from sadomasochistic to scatological. To realize her innermost sexual proclivities, Séverine becomes a prostitute at a local brothel, working only on weekday afternoons and taking on the moniker Belle de Jour. In French with English subtitles.

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, 1964, Rialto Pictures, 101 min. Jeanne Moreau stars as Parisian maid Céléstine, transplanted to the French countryside to clean house at the manor of M. Monteil (Michel Piccoli). What she discovers in her wintry bucolic surroundings is anything but staid country life - shoe fetishes, simmering anti-Semitism and a brutal rape and murder are all pieces of the unsettling debris that rises to the surface in Luis Buñuel’s wicked, kinky take on the upstairs-downstairs genre. In French with English subtitles.