Belle ToujoursDirected by Manoel de Oliveira
Produced by Les Films d'Ici
Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 10 min
French release : 11/04/2007
Production year : 2006
DirectorActorsSynopsis Severine and Henri are reunited decades after their earlier encounter in Luis Buñuel's 1967 film, Belle de Jour. Severine is reluctant to see Henri again, yet he is adamant about seeing her again. She resents that by seeing her former blackmailer she has to confront her past of adultery and prostitution. Nevertheless she is curious to know whether Henri revealed her secret life to her paralysed doctor husband as he was dying. Source : Wikipedia About "Belle toujours occurred to me unexpectedly and, as I had the will to pay my tribute to Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, I was happy to have found a way to do so, perhaps the best, and I started working. What is it about? Taking two of the strange characters from the film Belle de Jour, and make them relive, thirty eight years later, in the strangeness of a secret which was only in the possession of the masculine character and a knowledge that had become crucial to the female character. Thus, passed this time, they meet again. She tries to avoid him by all means. But he stalks her and eventually manages to gain her attention with the intention of revealing the secret that he alone can unfold. They set a meeting, a dinner, where she expects that all will be revealed. During dinner, she, now a widow, awaits the expected revelation: what he had told her husband while he was mute and paralytic because of a gunshot wound fired by a lover of hers. The situation is tense and she ends up in despair without being able to find out what in truth happened. He is satisfied in his sadism and in his particular revenge from the ways of that woman, who deep down desired him but whose haughty ways never allowed him to possess her. " Manoel De Oliveira Production photos (6)
Posters gallery (2)Press book (1)Production and distributionAssociate production company : Les Films d'Ici
Foreign production company : Filbox Produçoes
Film export/Foreign Sales : Onoma
French distribution : Les Films du Paradoxe
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Serge Lalou
Screenwriter : Manoel de Oliveira
Foreign Producer : Miguel Cadilhe
Director of Photography : Sabine Lancelin
Sound Recordist : Henri Maïkoff
Sound Assistant : Ricardo Leal
Production Managers : Jacques Arhex, Joaquim Carvalho, Angeline Massoni
Press Attaché (film) : Marie Queysanne
Editor : Valérie Loiseleux
Sound Editor : Mikaël Barre
Assistant Editor : Catherine Krassovsky
Continuity supervisor : Julia Buisel
Production Designer : Christian Marti
Costume Designer : Milena Canonero
Sound Mixer : Jean-Pierre Laforce
Technical detailsFeature film
Genres : Fiction
Sub-genre : Drama
Production language : French
Nationality : Minority French (France, Portugal)
Production year : 2006
French release : 11/04/2007
Runtime : 1 h 10 min
Current status : Released
Visa number : 115.519
Visa issue date : 20/12/2006
Approval : Yes
Production formats :
35mm
Screening format :
35mm
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 1.66
Sound format : Dolby SRD
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