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
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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.