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Belle de Jour location: Séverine
is picked up for the Duc: Chalet de la Grand Cascade, Bois de Boulogne,
Paris
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Luis
Buñuel supposedly hated Joseph Kesselís novel
about a bored, masochistic wife of a wealthy Parisian
surgeon who spends her afternoons working in a brothel,
but nevertheless turned it into a surreal masterpiece.
The elegant café terrace, where Séverine (Catherine
Deneuve) is picked up for the Duc’s incestuously
necrophilic fantasy, is the Chalet
de la Grande Cascade, AllÈe de Longchamp
by the Second Empire artificial waterfall near the Longchamp
Crossroads in the Bois de Boulogne.
Itís a very glitzy restaurant, and if you don’t have
a car it’s quite a schlep (metro: Ranelagh) along
Route de l’Hippodrome.
Behind Deneuve
on the restaurant terrace you can see Buñuel talking business with Robert and Raymond Hakim – producers
of the movie.
And it’s their office, with the movie stills outside,
where Pierre
Clémenti robs a deliveryman in the lift.
The building, since gutted and turned into an Italian
restaurant, can be seen at 79
Champs ElysÈes.
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Belle de Jour location: Séverine
works in Madame Anais' 'brothel': square Albin
Cachot, Paris |
Madame Anais’, the classy brothel where the ice-cool
Séverine confronts a bizarre spectrum of sexualities,
is at 1 square Albin-Cachot,
a tiny cul-de-sac south of rue Leon Maurice Nordmann
between rue de la Sante and rue de la GlaciËre (metro:
GlaciËre).
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