Double Feature
A Woman in Flames
A housewife yearning for more abandons her arrogant husband and their upper-class life. While exploring her newfound sexual freedom, she soon discovers that sex can be a very profitable commodity. And as her new life as a dominatrix intensifies, she forms a complicated romantic relationship with a gigolo.
- Director
- Robert van Ackeren
- Writer
- Screenplay by Robert van Ackeren and Catharina Zwerenz
- Starring
- Gudrun Landgrebe, Mathieu Carriere, Hanns Zischler
- Year
- 1983
- Country
- West Germany
- Format
- 16mm
- Running Time
- 106 minutes
Belle de Jour
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello. This surreal and erotic late-sixties daydream from provocateur for the ages Luis Buñuel is an examination of desire and fetishistic pleasure (its characters’ and its viewers’), as well as a gently absurdist take on contemporary social mores and class divisions. Fantasy and reality commingle in this burst of cinematic transgression, which was one of Buñuel’s biggest hits. (Janus Films)
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Starring
- Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
- Year
- 1967
- Country
- France
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 100 minutes