Belle Toujours, Dir Manoel de Oliveira, France, 2007
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Belle Toujours
21 Nov - 7 , 9 - 11 Dec 2008
***** Time Out
**** Total Film
**** Financial Times
**** Evening Standard
"Belle Toujours is a perfectly constructed jewel." Sight and Sound
Forty years after Catherine Deneuve explored her sexual fantasies as Severine in Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour, the world's oldest working film-maker Manoel de Oliveira - who celebrated his 100th birthday this year - mischievously revisits the 1967 masterpiece. Severine is now played by a blonde-wigged Bulle Ogier (who has her own scandalous cinematic past thanks to Barbet Schroeder's Maitresse), and she's not at all pleased to find herself pursued by former client Henri (played once again by Belle de Jour's Michel Piccoli). This is not a sequel but a sly and subtle tribute to the original film, with De Oliveira finding his own way to reveal the characters' perversities. Screening with short film A Bout de Truffe (except on 4-7 December).
Read the full Time Out review here
Dir Manoel De Oliveira, Portugal/France 2006, 68 mins, subtitles. / Dir Tom Tagholm, UK 2007, 14 mins, subtitles
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members.