Classic drama of suggested sensuality, which starts a short season of films by the acclaimed Spanish director Luis Bunuel.
Starring Catherine Deneuve
Severine, the wife of a successful surgeon, finds her days boring and her nights equally unexciting. She takes refuge in erotic fantasies until a chance remark leads her to a new and exciting daytime occupation - in a brothel.
In French with English subtitles.
(1967, 18)
See Films: pages 57-66 *****
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