The Village Voice, June 6th, 2007
Belle Toujours
Written and directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Opens June 8
Lincoln Plaza
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BY MICHELLE ORANGE
Belle Toujours, Manoel de Oliveira's poised, Parisian mood piece, announces itself as an homage to Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, co-writers of Bellede Jour, the indelible 1967 meditation on sublimations of desire, sadomasochism, and Catherine Deneuve in a push-up. Rather than a sequel proper, de Oliveira offers more of an extended coda to the original, one that happened to be shot in real time. Th...
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