Word: fetishistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belle de Jour, a very willful fantasy by Luis Bunuel compensates for its personal eccentricities by being so tolerant of the perversions of its characters. Raymond Durgnat (I think) points out that Bunuel's preoccupation with fetishist love differs little from, say, Max Ophuls' preoccupation with sentimental romance--that all forms of love are pure, and identical in the eyes of whatever strange God Bunuel worships. Belle de Jour is a film-maker's film, uncompromisingly unclinical, its often shocking material bathed in the warm yellow-brown glow conveyed by sensuous moving shots...
...Richard Fleischer opts for the comic touch, in the style of No Way to Treat a Lady. A parade of men's room queens, peepers and certified nuts pass in review, and the film mocks them all. But after it has squeezed its last smirks from a lisping fetishist who makes love to women's handbags, the movie abruptly shifts direction. The downhill half is a quasi-documentary, reminiscent of In Cold Blood, complete with textbook-spouting psychiatrist and brooding intellectual lawyer (Henry Fonda). Fleischer obviously wants it both ways, but he gets neither. The black comedy...
BELLE DE JOUR. Luis Buñuel, the aging Spanish director, fills this baroque piece of pornography about the obsessive fantasies of a young wife (Catherine Deneuve) with some of his most elegant fetishist jokes and anticlerical broadsides...
BELLE DE JOUR. This bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a young wife (Catherine Deneuve) is a fitting capstone to the 40-year career of Spanish Director Luis Buriuel as it ranges from anticlerical homilies to fetishist daydreams...
BELLE DE JOUR. This bizarre tale of the sexual fantasies of a young wife (Catherine Deneuve) is a fitting capstone to the 40-year-career of Spanish Director Luis Bunuel as it ranges from anticlerical homilies to fetishist daydreams...