Billie Piper plays Belle de Jour who says she's a whore - proudly and contentedly so.Type: Drama
Channel: 9
Date: Tuesday September 9
Time: 10:30 PM
Her friends and family think she works as a late-night legal secretary, but as Belle de Jour (Billie Piper, Doctor Who, The Sally Lockhart Mysteries) told us in last week's opening scene she's a whore - proudly and contentedly so. "Do you go to work every day knowing your day will be profitable and pleasurable?" she says. "Do you go to sleep every night feeling satisfied and sated? I do."
Based on The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl by the real Belle de Jour, it's all very European and very 1960s - from the French score to the sensuous cinematography to the way Billie talks directly to the camera when sharing her views on sex, her life and the psychology of her job.Piper leaves little to the imagination and even less unsaid - language warning - as she plays the detached, sex-loving escort to perfection (er, I'm told), managing a combination of the risque and seductiveness that is already drifting towards pathos. This is the real Sex and the City.
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