Pic [from the novel by Joseph Kessel] starts in a jolting manner ... and finally beginning to work there. Belle de Jour is the name she uses. Catherine Deneuve has the fine, luminous features ...

When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her ...