Belle Toujours
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Manoel de Oliveira pays tribute to Luis Buñuel with this exquisitely structured film, which complements the classic Belle de Jour. Oliveira takes two characters from the original film, Severine and Husson, and places them 38 years later in a delicate situation...
Forty years after Catherine Deneuve explored her sexual fantasies as Severine in Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour, the world's oldest working film-maker Manoel de Oliveira - who celebrated his 100th birthday this year - mischievously revisits the 1967 masterpiece. Severine is now played by a blonde-wigged Bulle Ogier (who has her own scandalous cinematic past thanks to Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse), and she's not at all pleased to find herself pursued by former client Henri (played once again by Belle de Jour's Michel Piccoli). This is not a sequel but a sly and subtle tribute to the original film, with De Oliveira finding his own way to reveal the characters' perversities.
ICA Films
Dir Manoel De Oliveira
Portugal/France
2006
68 mins, subtitles.
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