Stella @ Sixth & I Synagogue (+ Afterparty with a "Wet Hot American Summer Screening")Film Screening: Belle Toujours / Belle De Jour @ National Gallery of Art
by Svetlana 
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| September 7, 2008 | ||
| 4:00 pm |
Belle Toujours
followed by Belle de Jour
September 7 at 4:00
free
details here:
http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/portuguese_marvel.shtm
East Building Concourse, Large Auditorium
Although Oliveira’s intent was to offer a sequel and homage to the 1961 classic Belle de Jour, in fact the urbane Belle Toujours stands on its own as a rich comedy of manners and enigmatic take on past relationships, longing, and illusion. The Belle in this case is Bulle Ogier and her pursuer Michel Piccoli. (2006, 35 mm, French with subtitles, 68 minutes)
Belle de Jour, featuring Catherine Deneuve’s famously masochistic housewife, was Oliveira’s inspiration for Belle Toujours. (Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, 1961, 35 mm, Spanish and French with subtitles, 101 minutes)
