Belle De Jour
Skipping forward in film history thirty three years from A Man With a Movie Camera brings us away from the study of fallible filmic reality, to one of fallible minds. Luis Buñuel’s film Belle De Jour, though not for the faint of heart, brilliantly shows how a simple situation can be made complex by the action in a character’s head. Similarly to Inception much of the movie takes place in dreams, though these are not constructed by con artists but are the fantasies of an unsatisfied wife. As Belle De Jour progresses the audience sees the character’s life become as absurd as her fantasies, until reality and the fantastical blur to the point in which they are indecipherable.
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