Luis Buñuel pulled off a better trick 40 years ago, and with more economy, by posing Catherine Deneuve as St. Sebastian and flinging mud at her in “Belle de Jour.” Though the reason Buñuel succeeded so brilliantly and enduringly is that he blasphemed a bigger modern god, that of celebrity.Note: You may download the Grammar eBook Build Your Vocabulary and get all 406 vocabulary words.
—Manohla Dargis Film Review of Lunacy (2005) Los Angeles Times, August 9, 2006
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