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Director
  
Manoel de Oliveira

Screenplay
  
Manoel de Oliveira

Writer
  
Manoel de Oliveira

Language
  
French

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Music

Duration
  

Country
  
Portugal

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Release date
  
8 September 2006 (2006-09-08) (Venice) 11 April 2007 (2007-04-11) (France)

Producers
  
Serge Lalou, Miguel Cadilhe

Cast
  
Michel Piccoli
(Husson),
Bulle Ogier
(Séverine),
Ricardo Trêpa
(le barman),
Leonor Baldaque
(la jeune prostituée),
Júlia Buisel
(la prostituée âgée),
Lawrence Foster
(lui-même)

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Belle Toujours is a 2006 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. It is a sequel to the film Belle de Jour (1967).

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Plot

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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.

Reception

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The film was generally well-received, it holds a 65% "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Philip French writing in The Observer described the film as "caviar to the general, but an elegant treat for cinephiles." 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."

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
  • Belle toujours de manoel de oliveira


    References

    Belle Toujours Wikipedia
    Belle Toujours IMDb Belle Toujours themoviedb.org