Belle de Jour

“Belle de Jour’s a fabulous movie. I love one of Luis Buñuel’s other movies: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie or The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. But this is great. So, Catherine Deneuve, so hot, she plays a bored housewife who becomes a hooker. So many little things from this movie stick out, like there’s a guy at the brothel who tries to pay with, like, coupons or something. And I’ll never forget, the madam is like, “Non, ça ne marche pas ici. De l’argent!” And I always just say tha...”

“Belle de Jour is one of my favorite films this one is an inspiration for of course Gainsbourg but the whole atmosphere of the film The Beauty of the film The weirdness of it and the costumes I mean I even for a film I did that wasn't really a period film but I was very much looking into her character...”

“Belle de Jour, Buñuel. Timeless story of what happens in your mind and in your body when you are a woman who has money and is bored. You want to disempower yourself when you have power in spades. Buñuel was looking at this decades before the current discourse around sex scenes and post-Me Too feminism. It's hard to watch, it's challenging, it's scandalizing. I love this film and I also love watching Catherine Deneuve just go so bravely into that.”

“Belle de Jour. Oh my God, this film. She brings innocence to brokenness and she brings innocence to sexuality in a way I had never seen, and was such an influence on me as an actor.”