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Belle de Jour
May. 19th, 2005 10:17 amBelle de Jour is a cool film. Cool in both senses. Very smart, very detached.
I saw it when it first came out. I was in my late teens and it was way too adult for me. I had romantic notions about love and just didn't get the complexity and perversity of the heroine's sexuality.
I have grown into Bunuel's vision of the world. Civilisation is so much frosting.
Catherine Deneuve is the ultimate Hitchcock blonde. Unfortunately she came on the scene too late for Hitch to employ her. I love her stillness.
I wrote a sequence of poems on Spanish subjects a few years back. Here's the one about Bunuel.
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I saw it when it first came out. I was in my late teens and it was way too adult for me. I had romantic notions about love and just didn't get the complexity and perversity of the heroine's sexuality.
I have grown into Bunuel's vision of the world. Civilisation is so much frosting.
Catherine Deneuve is the ultimate Hitchcock blonde. Unfortunately she came on the scene too late for Hitch to employ her. I love her stillness.
I wrote a sequence of poems on Spanish subjects a few years back. Here's the one about Bunuel.
( Read more... )
