Folio: Belle de Jour (Paperback)

from jburlinson

Nearly everyone says that a book is, without fail, better than a movie made from that book. Well, Luis Bunuel stood that notion on its head, taking a book that he did not like ("a bit soap-operaish") and making of it a movie that he did like, along with many other people in the paying audience wh...

from jburlinson

Nearly everyone says that a book is, without fail, better than a movie made from that book. Well, Luis Bunuel stood that notion on its head, taking a book that he did not like ("a bit soap-operaish") and making of it a movie that he did like, along with many other people in the paying audience wh...

from CliffordDorset

I read this book out of interest in the translator, Geoffrey Wagner, who was an acclaimed novelist with an interest in erotic writing. I had seen the Catherine Deneuve movie many years ago, and my memory of this had faded considerably, but the well-known whipping scene in the movie makes no appea...

from CliffordDorset

I read this book out of interest in the translator, Geoffrey Wagner, who was an acclaimed novelist with an interest in erotic writing. I had seen the Catherine Deneuve movie many years ago, and my memory of this had faded considerably, but the well-known whipping scene in the movie makes no appea...