Belle de Jour Cabaret Cinema
Friday October 9, 2009 @ 9:30 PM
Luis Buñuel, U.S., 1967 (101 min)
Catherine Deneuve plays a young housewife who revels in masochistic daydream fantasies. To satisfy her desires, she secretly begins to work at a high class brothel... As the fallout from the protagonist's other life starts to bleed into what had seemed the safety of her domesticated existence, the line between fantasy and reality grows blurred. Bunuel's movie explores themes of repression and examines the nature of female desire.
Introduced by Mark Doty
Free with a $7 bar minimum
Mark Doty is an American poet whose Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008. His eight books of poetry include School of the Arts, Source, and My Alexandria. He has also published four volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast, Firebird, and Dog Years, which was a New York Times bestseller in 2007. Doty's work has been honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the UK.
Inspired by the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung the Red Book series presents classic films that explore Jungian themes, including the various archetypes and the exploration of the self through fantasy.
