Belle De Jour
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| Poster Origin : | France |
| Poster Size : | French Affiche / 60 x 80cm |
| Poster Artist : | René Ferracci |
| Poster Year : | 1967 |
| Poster Version : | First Release |
| Poster Printer: | Saint-Martin, Paris, FR |
| Film Origin : | France |
| Film Director : | Luis Buñuel |
| Film Year : | 1967 |
Ferracci’s famous seductive portrait of Catherine Deneuve has been repurposed many times in different countries over the years, but only this original version looks like the classic piece of cosmopolitan Parisian design. The dignified typeface, with a nod to Daberny & Peignot’s famous font studio, perfectly compliments the Yves Saint Laurent couture paraded in the film.
Psychologically, Buñuel’s characters are usually trapped, hence the inner sphere enclosed entirely in white (the cold puritanical environment of Séverine’s repression). Superficially she is a polite model of bourgeois respectability, but matrimonially frigid and yearning for sexual adventure.
The central circular image represents Séverine’s fantasy world; daubs of paint envelope her in a sphere of rich, wild colour where she is expressive, indulgent and liberated, with her body and emotions laid bare. The energetic splashes represent her freedom, found ironically and absurdly, in true Buñuel fashion, through bondage and sado-masochism.