French Actress Catherine Deneuve is only 24, but she is already a veteran of 22 films in which she has been seduced almost as often as Bardot. She is also France’s fastest-rising female star, and is ...

It’s the world’s oldest profession, but it’s also the world’s most stigmatized profession. Sex work, be it prostitution or erotic dancing or pornographic acting, is a reality of the world, an umbrella ...

Geneviève Page as the brothel-keeper Madame Anais with Catherine Deneuve in Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour, 1967 - Alamy Geneviève Page, who has died aged 97, was a luminous, spirited French actress who ...

Belle de Jour explores the dual life of Séverine, a young housewife who leads a conventional existence with her husband while secretly working at a brothel. As she navigates her hidden desires and the ...