Belle Toujours
2006 Portuguese film
- 8 September 2006 (2006-09-08) (Venice)
- 11 April 2007 (2007-04-11) (France)
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Belle Toujours is a 2006 French-language Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It was Portugal's submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.[1][2] It is a sequel to the film Belle de Jour (1967).
Plot
Severine and Henri are reunited decades after their earlier encounter in Luis Buñuel's 1967 film, Belle de Jour. Severine is reluctant to see Henri again, yet he is adamant about seeing her again. She resents that by seeing her former blackmailer she has to confront her past of adultery and prostitution. Nevertheless, she is curious to know whether Henri revealed her secret life to her paralysed doctor husband as he was dying.[3]
Reception
The film was generally well received. It holds a 71% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 42 reviews, with an average score of 6.29/10. The site's consensus reads: "An unexpectedly moving sequel to Luis Bunuel's Belle du Jour, Belle Toujours is a short and sweet elegy on aging, sexuality, and the power of cinema".[4]
Philip French writing in The Observer described the film as "caviar to the general, but an elegant treat for cinephiles."[3] Time Out said that the film offers "a deceptive, philosophical and cautionary meditation, not only on age, appetite, pleasure, betrayal, mendacity, revenge and disillusionment but also in idle curiosity."[5]
Nominations
European Film Awards
- European Film Award for Best Actor – Michel Piccoli
Golden Globes (Portugal)
- Best Film – Manoel de Oliveira
LUX Prize 2007
- Best Film
The film was also in the Official Selection of the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, screened in the "Out of Competition" section.
See also
Film portal
References
- ^ "A Record 63 Countries Vying For Best Foreign-Language Oscar Nod". Yahoo! Movies. 17 October 2007. Archived from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2008.
- ^ Gaydos, Steven; McCarthy, Libby (15 January 2008). "Oscar's foreign film race heats up". Variety. Archived from the original on 30 June 2008. Retrieved 23 June 2008.
- ^ a b French, Phillip (23 November 2008). "Belle toujours". The Observer/The Guardian. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ "Belle Toujours (2007)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ "Belle Toujours". Time Out.. 20–26 November 2008.
External links
- Belle Toujours at IMDb
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Films directed by Manoel de Oliveira
- Douro, Faina Fluvial
- Aniki-Bóbó
- The Artist and the City
- Rite of Spring
- The Hunt
- Past and Present
- Benilde or the Virgin Mother
- Doomed Love
- Francisca
- The Satin Slipper
- My Case
- The Cannibals
- No, or the Vain Glory of Command
- The Divine Comedy
- Day of Despair
- Abraham's Valley
- The Box
- The Convent
- Party
- Voyage to the Beginning of the World
- Anxiety
- The Letter
- Word and Utopia
- I'm Going Home
- Porto of My Childhood
- The Uncertainty Principle
- A Talking Picture
- The Fifth Empire
- Magic Mirror
- Belle Toujours
- Christopher Columbus – The Enigma
- Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl
- The Strange Case of Angelica
- Gebo and the Shadow
- The Old Man of Belem
- Visit or Memories and Confessions
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