A harrowing mental descent into schizophrenia, claustrophobia, hysteria, and sexual repression, accompanied by voyeuristic pleasure. Injecting Repulsion with surrealistic touches, Polanski has done an exceptional job in pulling audiences into the crazed mind.
Bourgeois' nervous wreck about their future, restricting themselves under social code, the duality of fantasy and reality, and the perversions everyone hides in their fantasies make Belle Du Jour all too irresistible and worth risking a certain time frame for