Belle Du Jour

This 1967 classic from director Luis Buñuel tells the story of a lonely and bored Parisian housewife named Séverine (Catherine Deneuve) who comes up with a unique way to make her days a bit more interesting: She signs up to do a day shift at a local high class brothel. Scared at first, Séverine soon discovers she has a talent for entertaining men. Her illusions of control over the situation are shattered when a friend of her husband – as well as a truly ugly thug with razor sharp teeth – start demanding more and more of her time. Like all Buñuel movies, there’s a lot more going on in the movie than what the audiences see on the surface, but even if they don’t want to spend hours deconstructing the film they will be wildly entertained with the story. Of course, they can also just sit back and watch one of the most beautiful actresses in the world who, at the age of 24, created in this film one of the truly iconic images of world cinema with her portrayal of the Belle Du Jour.