Trailer For Luis Bunuel’s Newly Restored Classic 'Belle De Jour'

The repressed, sexual desires of a bored housewife have never been more charged than in Luis Bunuel’s groundbreaking “Belle De Jour.” The erotic drama still sizzles decades later, and now it’s returning to the big screen in a new restoration, and looking better than ever.

Catherine Deneuve takes the starring role in the film that follows Séverine Serizy, who finds an outlet for her fleshly desires, even as she remains unable to love her own husband. Here’s the official synopsis:

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Undoubtedly Luis Buñuel’s most accessible film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences today as it did on its debut over 40 years ago. 

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage. 

The restored “Belle De Jour” screened at the Cannes Film Festival this spring and is opening in the U.K. More dates are likely to come soon.