Three years ago, a Japanese TV drama "Dayu Yan: Lovers at 3 PM on Workdays" caught fire. It was a bold and exciting thing to talk about women's inner desires openly. It is even hard to get a ticket for the movie of the same name at this year's Shanghai Film Festival.
On August 2, 1967, "Beauty in the Day" was released in France. It tells the story of a woman who is dissatisfied with her husband's sex life, Severina, who turns into a senior prostitute from 2 to 5 pm, and stays a good housewife at other times.
The Japanese translation of "Beauty in Daylight" was "Hiyan", which was nearly 50 years earlier than the popular online dramas and movies.
The name of the film "Belle de jour" in French means a flower that blooms during the day, just like the heroine Severina, which only appears in the afternoon. It is also a pun, because "Belle de nuit" is a euphemism for prostitutes. After "The Umbrella of Cherbourg" and "Cold Blood Cry", Catherine Deneuve took over the filming of "Day Beauty" directed by Luis Bunuel, transformed into a fashionable housewife Sevrina, thinking about a fashionable And secretly confused, if a woman can't get physical satisfaction from her husband, what should she do?
That’s what satiated lust might say. Sephorina’s life is rich, as can be seen from the luxurious decoration of the home, the huge living room and study room, with servants taking care of everything.
The bathroom has both a bathtub and a shower. The bottles and cans on the table are approximately equivalent to our current SKII.
The usual entertainment is playing tennis, and her doctor husband in a white robe gave her a high-level material life.
At night, the perfect life was broken, and the newly married she and her husband were sleeping in separate beds. As soon as the dull bells and bells rang, she drifted into an almost absurd dream.
So the brain made up a thrilling affair scene. In her dream, she would be abused by the coachman, and she would wear a black lace dress in the coffin to satisfy the strangers’ yearning for his dead wife, and she would be tied to the abandoned dead wood by her husband and friends. , Was thrown into the smelly black mud, was scolded for the most dirty words, but the corners of his mouth showed a smile after being abused.
In the end, she found a way to vent these unrestrained desires. She became a senior prostitute who only appeared in the afternoon, enjoying a moment of physical pleasure in the apartment of Madame Anis in the Albin underground city square in Paris.
They said that they only appeared from 2 to 5, and as soon as 5 o'clock came, she immediately returned seamlessly to the housewife's life surrounded by champagne, cocktails, reading newspapers, and playing crosswords to pass the time, decent and empty.
At the beginning of the movie, it was Sevelina’s fantasy of sexual abuse. Sitting on the carriage, she had some verbal quarrels with her husband. The husband asked the carriage driver to tie her to a tree and beat her with a whip, and raped her. , The red suit was torn apart rudely, and the snow-white back was completely bare.
In a blink of an eye, the disillusionment was disillusioned and she returned to reality. The husband beside her asked what she was thinking. She said "I was thinking of you". Obviously, this was not a truth.
In a few simple minutes, you can see that there is an insurmountable gap between Sevelina's fantasy life and real life. She can only satisfy her empty self through damp dreams and the life of a high-level prostitute.
For a long time, she even tried to balance the dual identities of a good wife and a prostitute at the same time. Of course, this was not an easy task.
Husband’s friend Hasen appeared, and at the same time he had the pass of Sevelina’s dual identity. He drifted between her two lives and admired her secret life, and even threatened her to tell her husband Pi El. At that time she knew that it was a real fantasy to want to satisfy two of them at the same time.
When her professional killer lover Marcel was about to murder the informer, she accidentally injured Pierre and paralyzed her lower limbs.
After Severina confessed everything to her husband, Pierre got up from her chair, and they hugged and talked about going out to climb the mountain during the holiday, as if nothing had happened.
When she walked to the window, the carriage at the beginning of the film walked down the path again, just like the first dream, except that she was no longer in the carriage. It makes people suspect that all of this is just the daydream of a boring housewife, just like the fantasy of sexual abuse in the movie.
Director Luis Bunuel explained this, “At the end of the film, reality and imagination merged together. Even if I am myself, I cannot tell you which is reality and which is fantasy in the film. For me, what they express It's the same thing
Although they are based on Joseph Kossel's novels, these plots are that the director and screenwriter really find the housewives to chat, and record their most secret and true fantasy.
The appearance of Mrs. Anis's apartment in the movie is also a restoration of the Madrid brothel that they actually visited in real life. There are many strange "sexual" people, pimps and thieves.
"Day Beauty" won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival and the Passinetti Award for Best Film, and Deneuve was nominated for Best Actress at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.
A large number of ingenious montage techniques and bantering of the middle class are of course the prerequisites for the film to be affirmed, but the design of Yves Saint Laurent definitely adds to the film.
It is difficult to assess the role of Saint Laurent’s tailor-made clothing for Deneuve in all the honors and achievements of the film, but if you have seen the movie, you will know that the first collaboration between Saint Laurent and Deneuve is so perfect. Under the design of Saint Laurent, Deneuve's dual beauties are sexy and charming, perfectly blending with her performance, and the whole movie becomes a gorgeous fashion show.
The big red military-style suit at the beginning of the movie is dignified and elegant, but the color setting highlights the unconcealed desire in Sevelina's heart.
She is still living as a housewife in a solid-color double-breasted coat. The cuffs and pockets are decorated with fur, matched with gloves of the same color, and her slender legs should be exposed even in cold weather.
In the coat is the same camel-colored straight dress, full of the romantic elegance of a French woman, simple and powerful.
When she went to the brothel for the first time, she completely wrapped herself up, trying to suppress her curiosity, excitement, and hesitation with dark colors.
She was wearing a black patent leather trench coat for the first time and she was bold and bold, with a bright smile, and her husband on the side noticed that she was different from usual.
At the end of the film, she wore a little black dress, a small white French collar, the same white cuffs, and a neat hair bun. She was as cute as a student.
After this movie, the two became a golden combination in the fashion and film industry.
In the 60s to 70s after "Beauty of the Day", almost all of Catherine Deneuve's costumes were provided by YSL.
Including "Frenzy" (1968), "Deception" (1969), "Bitch" (1972).
The matching shoes in the movie are also worth mentioning. Sevelina always uses a pair of RV square buckle shoes to match the coat suit. This Buckle is also renamed Belle Vivier in tribute to "Belle du Jour" and has been popular today.
"Beauty in the Day" is a pornographic erotic film. There is no dew point in the whole film, but in the 1960s and even today, it is a fairly naked film. The nudity here does not refer to the body, but to the soul. And thinking, the most inner physiological desire is expressed with the most plain lens, the picture is not erotic, but the erotic in the bones is to the extreme. That's it.
Although Deneuve’s subsequent appearances in "Indochina" and "Eight Beautiful Pictures" also won her various awards, but she has to admit that "Day Beauty" is "very important to me, even if I watch it now, it is still You can find the fantasies of men and women, of course most of them belong to women."
It has been 50 years since the movie was released, and the classic production was re-screened in Paris. Hopefully, like Deneuve said, today you can still see your desires clearly in this movie 50 years ago.
After all, it is never the skin that stimulates the desire most, but the sexual fantasies deep in your brain.
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