Belle de Jour

Haifa Classics

""Rule-breakingly brilliant""

The Guardian
  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Luis Buñuel
  • France 1967
  • 100 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

50th Anniversary of the Film

In Luis Buñuel’s surreal 60s classic, Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of her most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello.

The unchallenged classic of elegant kink, wrought by the cinema’s great surrealist Luis Buñuel on the cool beauty of Catherine Deneuve, arrives from its 50th-birthday celebrations in Cannes in a stunning new 4K restoration.

Filmography: That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Un Chien Andalou (1929).

Restored Digital Copy


  • Director Luis Buñuel
  • Production Raymond Hakim, Robert Hakim
  • Script Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière, from the novel by Joseph Kessel
  • Cinematography Sacha Vierny
  • Editing Louisette Hautecœur
  • Festivals Cannes
  • Actors Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
  • Source Tamasa Distribution, Paris