Bella de día

1967 | Color | 101 min

Severine is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, kinky, erotic fantasies to entertain her sexual desires. Eventually she becomes a prostitute, working in a brothel in the afternoons while remaining chaste in her marriage

Country: Italia, Francia
Direction: Buñuel; Luis
Script: Kessel; Joseph, Carrière; Jean-Claude, Buñuel; Luis
Production: Hakim; Raymond, Hakim; Robert, Baum; Henri
Photography: Vierny; Sacha
Sound: Davoust; Pierre, Longuet; René
Music:
Cast:Page; Geneviève, Sorel; Jean, Piccoli; Michel, Deneuve; Catherine, Clementi; Pierre
Art direction:
Participation year at FICM: 2006

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