I continue to like the ideas of Luis Buñuel more than his actual films. His humiliation of the bourgeois continues in Belle de Jour, but there’s an additional element I’d not seen before: an actual sympathy towards sexual deviants as people repressed by the expectations of society. Catherine Deneuve becomes a victim herself as the film goes on. I would’ve liked to see more of this angle and the film’s surrealist lens. Great final act, but I wonder if old films about sex lose their profundity in the contemporary novelty of their provocations.