A new restoration of the 1967 film “Belle de Jour” opens Friday. Below is The Times’ original review from Dec. 19, 1968. It is one of life’s surprising ironies that the great Spanish ...

Belle de Jour unveils her true identity as a highly regarded scientist. By ABC News. November 16, 2009, 10:52 AM. LONDON Nov. 16, 2009 — -- The most celebrated high class hooker in the world ...

The unmasking of Belle de Jour makes us think of a litany of brilliant courtesans, writes Clive James in his weekly column. For several years, the true identity of Belle de Jour, author of a blog ...

There, she takes the name “Belle de Jour” (beauty of the day), a play on a French euphemism for a prostitute, “belle de nuit” (beauty of the night). However, when a young gangster client (Pierre ...

Belle de Jour reveals her mum's surprising reaction when she outed herself as £300-an-hour call girl Most mothers might be forgiven for being ashamed to find their daughter was a prostitute but ...

It's widely recognized as one of the sexiest films ever, and now "Belle de Jour" is returning to the big screen for its 50th anniversary.

As an anonymous blogger, Belle de Jour became an internet phenomenon with her Diary of a London Call Girl, and a publisher's dream with her bestselling memoirs explicitly detailing her many ...

But Belle de Jour is Bufiuel. Spanish Director Luis Bufiuel is 68, deaf and an acknowledged alcoholic; he has claimed that this—his 27th picture—will be his last.

Belle de jour was a great critical success for Buñuel, too, winning him the Golden Lion at that year’s Venice Film Festival. Sly, teasing, and deeply funny, ...