Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour is a 1967 psychological drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, and Michel Piccoli. Based on the 1928 novel Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel, the film is about a young woman who spends her midweek afternoons as a high-class prostitute, while her husband is at work. The title of the film is a play on words on the French term belle de nuit ("beauty of the night", i.e., a prostitute). It can also be interpreted as a reference to the French name of the morning glory (Convolvulaceae), meaning "beauty of the day", a flower that blooms only during the day. Sinopsis: Séverine, Pierre's very discreet wife, has masochistic fantasies that reveal her sexual frustration. Encouraged by her curiosity and without Pierre knowing it, Séverine begins working in a brothel and becomes Belle de jour, the third resident of Ms. Anaïs's brothel. Séverine seems to have found her way by pleasing the desires of her clients, but things go wrong when Marcel, a gangster and frequent client of the brothel, falls in love with her.