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Remember the old 6 Degrees of Separation theory? Two people, who do not know each other, who may live at extreme opposite on the planet, would theoretically be linked by only 4 people standing in between them as the rings of a chain, each "ring" only knowing the person who come before and after him in the ring sequence.

In 1967, cult director Luis Buñuel shot what became one of the masterpieces of filmed surrealism, Belle De Jour. 39 years later, another Iberian master decides to return to that story and to imagine its continuation in Belle Toujours, starring in the same role of nearly four decades ago the same actor, Michel Piccoli. If would not be so uncommon to film a sequel ages after the original (right, George Lucas? Oh, no wait. Yours was a prequel, that makes all the difference!), but the director of this new movie is Manoel De Oliveira, award-winning Portuguese director who in 2006 turned 98. He was 60 years old when the first movie was shot.

Have you ever wondered what a third eye would see if located inside your mouth? If you are sane, probably you never had this thought, so the fact that someone actually carried out the experiment and published a book out of it is quite remarkable.