Ebert's Love Letter to "Belle de Jour"

"[Belle de Jour is] possibly the best-known erotic film of modern times, and perhaps the best. That's because it understands eroticism from the inside-out--understands how it exists not in sweat and skin, but in the imagination."

So writes Roger Ebert in a 2009 reappraisal in the Chicago Sun Times.

Belle de Jour will be screened tonight at Page Hall on the UAlbany downtown campus.

For an entirely different take, see Rita Kempley in the Washington Post:

"The director may have been ahead of his time, but he displays no more compassion for his characters than a psycho killer shows for his victims.... Belle seems the work of a beast." More.