French film "Belle de jour" to be screened on November 4, 2011

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Still from Luis Buñuel film "Belle de jour"

ALBANY, NY (10/21/2011)(readMedia)-- BELLE DE JOUR (France, 1967, 101 minutes, color, in French with English subtitles, directed by Luis Buñuel) will be shown on Friday, November 4, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, the screening is free and open to the public.

Catherine Deneuve stars in this story of a respectable doctor's wife who keeps a secret job in a brothel two days a week. Never graphic in its depictions of sex, the film is universally acknowledged as an erotic masterpiece. In a 1999 reappraisal, Roger Ebert said "[BELLE DE JOUR] understands eroticism from the inside out-understands how it exists not in sweat and skin, but in the imagination."

For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.