A Few Personal Messages, translated into English by Claire Foster, is available from Small Press. Pierre Clémenti runs October 13-31, 2022 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Belle de jour (1967). Courtesy of Janus Films.As Pierre Clémenti tells it, Luis Buñuel cast him in Belle de jour (1967) without Clémenti needing to open his mouth. One can understand why; the role, which would be Clémenti’s best known as well as his break-out, needed someone who had as much appeal as they did threat. Belle de Jour is a film built from the fantasies of a housewife, Catherine Devenue’s Séverine, who decides to be a sex worker while her husband is at work. Only appearing an hour into the film, Clémenti’s Marcel, a young criminal, quickly fixates on Séverine. In contrast with the classically handsome but bland Jean Sorel as Séverine’s husband, Marcel could be someone...
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