The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

4.50
    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
    1972

    Synopsis

    In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

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    Cast

    • Fernando ReyDon Rafael
    • Delphine SeyrigMme Thevenot
    • Paul FrankeurM. Thevenot
    • Bulle OgierFlorence
    • Stéphane AudranAlice Sénéchal
    • Jean-Pierre CasselM. Sénéchal
    • Julien BertheauMonseigneur Dufour
    • Claude PiépluLe Colonel
    • Michel PiccoliLe Ministre
    • François MaistreDelecluze

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Boston Globe

      Slly, sublime, buoyant mischief that is virtually without parallel in 20th-century art, much less 20th-century film.
    • 100

      Salon

      This has to be one of the most completely realized comedies ever made, and, in its odd way, one of the most civilized.
    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      Movies don't come more original, inventive, or outlandishly entertaining.
    • 90

      L.A. Weekly

      In the nearly 30 years since the movie was released (it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1972), one forgets how falling-about-funny is this mad caper.
    • 90

      TV Guide Magazine

      A brilliant surrealistic joke about a group of friends whose attempts to dine are continually thwarted.
    • 90

      Village Voice

      One of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match.
    • 88

      San Francisco Examiner

      If there's a granddaddy of breezy situationalism, it's probably Buñuel.
    • 88

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      A classic of subversive surrealism.

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