Human sexuality is a strange and wondrous thing, but you’d never guess that if your only knowledge of it came from the movies—Hollywood movies in particular. Unable to show much of what people ...

So Belle de Jour was real after all. The Internet’s most famous anonymous sex blogger – turned best-selling author – turned internationally successful TV series – has finally outed herself in the UK’s ...

French Actress Catherine Deneuve is only 24, but she is already a veteran of 22 films in which she has been seduced almost as often as Bardot. She is also France’s fastest-rising female star, and is ...

It’s the plot that launched A thousand pornos. A respectable housewife, trapped in a marriage that’s at a sexual standstill, spends her afternoons working in a brothel, fulfilling her fantasies while ...

NAU’s College of Arts and Letters Film Series presents a touch of Fall spice with “Belle de Jour” (1967), the erotic tale of a middle-class Parisian housewife who neglects her handsome, young husband ...

In 1928, the novel Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel shocked bourgeois France. The story of Sévèrine, a happily married well-to-do woman who lives out her sexual fantasies by prostituting herself in a ...

In May 1968, a nationwide general strike led by students and factory workers crippled the French economy and plunged the nation into a state of chaos. The situation reached a boiling point by May 29 ...

We are less discreet about sexual matters than people were when Luis Buñuel filmed this tale about a bourgeois housewife who takes afternoon shifts at an upscale brothel, but shock and titillation are ...