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Writer:
Manoel de Oliveira (written by)
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Release Date:
8 September 2006 (Italy) more
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Plot:
38 years after the original story, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night in a concert. He follows her and makes her face her past and with sadism takes a slow and painful revenge on her. full summary | add synopsis
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2 nominations more
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Cinematical Seven: Way Late Sequels
 (From Cinematical. 12 March 2009, 8:32 PM, PDT)

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Cast

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Michel Piccoli ... Henri Husson
Bulle Ogier ... Séverine Serizy
Ricardo Trêpa ... Barman
Leonor Baldaque ... Young Prostitute
Júlia Buisel ... Old Prostitute
Lawrence Foster ... Himself - Direction musicale
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68 min
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Director Manoel de Oliveira made this film at the age of 97. more
Movie Connections:
Follows Belle de jour (1967) more
Soundtrack:
Symphonie n° 8 en sol majeur - Op. 88 (mouvements 3 et 4) more

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A widow meets up with her husband's best friend years after she experiments with devious ex, 11 June 2008
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Author: jceles from Spain

This film by Manoel de Oliveira shows his great knowledge of Buñuel's work but also his admiration of the original Belle de Jour which explains why he would want to return to that story so many years later. My first reaction was that someone who had not seen Belle de Jours would probably not enjoy this. It is in the cinema what Wide Sargasso Sea is in literature, a kind of recreation of a known theme. De Oliveira builds up an amazing tension round what is finally going to happen between the two characters and that makes the meal at the end an example of suspense based not on action so typical of the thriller, but rather on the word, which in Oliveira's films acquires the stature of protagonist. A great movie!

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