Two years after harassing an old man atop a pillar in the short subject Simon of the Desert, Luis Buñuel returned to feature-length filmmaking with one of the more straight-forward and popular films ...

Séverine Serizy, the glacial, inscrutable masochist at the center of Luis Buñuel’s masterpiece “Belle de Jour,” leads perhaps the most irreconcilable of double lives. Catherine Deneuve plays the ...

If you’ve been panting over “Fifty Shades of Grey,” you may need a respirator for “Belle De Jour,” Luis Bunuel’s 1967 erotic classic that’s been called the sexiest film ever made. It has a scene that ...

A herd of cows is nearby and the black mud is likely mixed with their shit. Before throwing the ordure and calling Séverine filthy names, the two men discuss the time of day, which is between 2 and 5 ...