Build a movie plot around this: Who runs the brothel? Madam Anais
Severine Serizy (Catherine Deneuve), is a 23 year old. beautiful, newlywed housewife, married to the respectable and uninteresting surgeon, Dr. Pierre Serizy (Jean Sorel). Despite their love for each other, Severine is frigid and sleeps in a separate bed, rejecting his sexual advances. Her sexual life is restricted to elaborate fantasies involving dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and bondage. Although frustrated by his wife's frigidity, he respects her wishes.While visiting a ski resort, they meet two friends, Henri Husson (Michel Piccoli) and Renee (Macha Meril). Severine does not like Husson's manner and the way he looks at her. Back in Paris, Severine sees Renee again and learns that a mutual friend, Henriette, has turned to prostitution for money. At her home, Severine receives roses from Husson and is unsettled by the gesture. At the tennis courts, she bumps into Husson and she asks him questions about Henriette and brothels. Husson mentions to Severine the address of a high-class brothel at 11 Cite Jean de Saumur. He tells her he'd like to spend time with her -- without her husband being present -- but Severine rejects his advances.Haunted by childhood memories involving her father, Severine goes to address of the high-class brothel, leaves, and then enters, meeting Madame Anais (Genevieve Page). Reluctant at first, she responds to the "firm hand" of Madame Anais, who names her "Belle de Jour," and has sex with her first john. After staying away for a week, incurring Madame Anais wrath, Severine returns to the brothel and begins working everyday from two to five o'clock, returning to her unsuspecting husband each evening. One day Husson visits her at home, but Severine refuses to see him, although she fantasizes about having sex with him in her husband's presence. Having sex as a prostitute allows her to begin enjoying sex with her husband.Husson discovers her secret one afternoon when he comes to the brothel for sex. Severine at first demands he leave, then offers to have sex with him, but he...