Word: jour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belle de Jour. At the Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday...
...Belle de Jour. Arguably Luis Bunuel's most gripping study of eroticism, and certainly one of the old master's all-time achievements. This 1967 release documents the plunge of a stunning Catherine Deneuve into the abyss of masochism, highlighted by brilliantly filmed vignettes of surrealism and as bizarre plot twist, bringing Deneuve's wife of a Parisian physician (Jean Sorel) to the doors of a brothel for a job. Only his classic "Los Olivados" approaches the eeriness of the dream sequences in "Bell de Jour," and relative newcomers to Bunuel's work should mark down this Sunday's showing...
...Mexico in 1950, on a shoe-string budget after more than ten years of enforced retirement from making movies. Dealing with street gangs in Mexico City, Bunuel displays here the same sardonic sensibility (combining psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives) which distinguishes the best of his later films, especially "Belle de Jour" and "Viridiana." This film, though technically more primitive, has the most raw emotional power, and contains perhaps the most effective dream sequence in any film I've seen...
...have your nerve. You condemn William Safire for his "groaners" in the same issue [Oct. 3] that you commit "Sloops du Jour,'' "The Spy Who Came in for the Gold," "Growing Fonda of Jane" and, worst of all, "did not go gently into that good nightside...
...Mexico in 1950, on a shoestring budget after more than ten years of enforced retirement from making movies. Dealing with street gangs in Mexico City, Bunuel displays here the same sardonic sensibility (combining psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives) which distinguishes the best of his later films, especially Belle de Jour and Viridiana. This film, though technically more primitive, has the most raw emotional power, and contains perhaps the most effective dream sequence in any film I've seen...