FRI NOV 4, 2022 7:30 PM BELLE DE JOUR / THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Aero Theatre | Luis Buñuel: An American Cinematheque Retrospective Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILMS: BELLE DE JOUR, 1967, Janus Films, 101 min, France, Dir: Luis Buñuel. Housewife Séverine (Catherine Deneuve), stuck at home with her doctor husband, indulges in private erotic fantasies. To realize her innermost sexual proclivities, Séverine becomes a prostitute at a local brothel, working only on weekday afternoons and taking on the moniker Belle de Jour. Over fifty years since its release, Luis Buñuel’s subversive mega-classic is as boundary-pushing as ever, its deft mix of edge and lightness underscored by Deneuve’s nimbly cool performance. FORMAT: 35mm THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, 1972, Rialto Pictures, 102 min, France, Dir: LUIS BUÑUEL. This later Luis Buñuel masterpiece and 1973 Best Foreign-Language Oscar winner is a return to the subversive director’s Surrealist roots and a showcase for his scrumptiously satirical wit. A sextet of upper-class friends (including Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig and Jean-Pierre Cassel) attempt to dine together but are continually stalled by a streaming series of vaudevillian events, both real and dreamed. FORMAT: DCP