His daughter about to be married, a middle-aged man takes a journey and falls in love with a mysterious (imaginary?) woman. Peter Cowie writes: "With its painterly overtones of Magritte, Belle is one of the most sensitive films to come from Belgium in several years. Delvaux, like Bergman and Jancso, is gradually establishing his own unmistakable world, to which one returns with curiosity and pleasure. It is a land of the imagination, an area in which fantasy and reality blend and blur with a beauty that only the early Resnais has equalled since the war."