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In typical Luis Buñuel fashion, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie surrealistically skewers the conventions of society. Buñuel applies his surrealist touch to a mundane event: a dinner party that may never come to pass. A group of well-to-do friends attempt to gather for a social evening, but are thwarted at every turn. The initial problem seems to be a simple scheduling mistake, but the obstacles become more and more bizarre. At one point, the guests are interrupted at the table by an army
PG, 1 hr. 40 min.
Drama, Art House & International, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Special Interest
Sep 15, 1972 Wide
Dec 19, 2000
20th Century-Fox
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Luis Buñuel's 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to have a meal together, is perhaps the most perfectly achieved and executed of all his late French films.
Luis Bunuel adds another fine film to his solid record with this surrealistically oriented tale of so-called bourgeois types.
Take a look again at its dream sequences, especially the nocturnal one involving the young man in the side street, and you will see a master disturber still at work.
An absurdly comic assault on the meaningless social rituals and polite hypocrisies of the upper middle class.
Most of the films of Luis Bunuel are comedies in one way or another, but he doesn't go for gags and punch lines; his comedy is more like a dig in the ribs, sly and painful.
Although it doesn't hold up as much as you'd like it to, I liked its sense of scattered independence.
Buñuel doesn't just ridicule, he pokes and prods at his dubious subjects with a gleeful delight. Such priceless cynical joy you won't find anywhere else.
It's all too familiar Buñuel and lacks the bite of some of his earlier and sharper edged films.
Innovative, many layered and prevocative but very, very dated.
Of the four absurdist comedies the director made towards the end of his life, this is the best and most accessible.
Buñuel and Carriere give us dreams within dreams, fantasies within fantasies and stories within stories, all punctuated by scenes of the six striding purposefully along a deserted country road, resolutely headed nowhere,.
A delicious comedy of manners, Bunuel's Oscar winner is a descendant of the audaciously surreal Golden Age, a light satire of the trivial, conformist bourgeois lifestyle.
The chic stylishness of the characters comes over as overbearing rather than satirically revealing.
Bunuel was at the height of his powers with this satirical farce that explodes the distance between all things personal and political. "The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie" is a timeless and enigmatic masterpiece that psychologically alters its audience
There are masterpieces scattered among Buñuel's French films like confetti, but here one of cinema's most brilliant directors made the most brilliant film of his career.
Não apenas um olhar cínico (e divertido) sobre nossas fachadas sociais, mas também uma brincadeira inteligente com a própria linguagem do Cinema.
A true treasure of cinema from one its masters.
Buñuel repeatedly takes on the gross presumptuousness of his characters--their unwillingness to admit defeat and to take things only at face value.
How do keep a film about insane repetition from feeling insanely repetitious?
One of Luis Bunuel's greatest and funniest films, and the winner of a Best Foreign Film Oscar, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a brilliant surrealistic joke about a group of friends whose attempts to dine are continually thwarted.
Luis Buñuel is an acquired taste that I sometimes have trouble acquiring. His films can be a little cryptic and transcendent (or confusing and pompous - depending on your point of reference). The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is an exercise in precise meandering that will either pull you along by your belt
January 13, 2009
Super Reviewer
The master of surrealism, Luis Bunuel was about 72 when he made this fantastic film, "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie". It is literally a wet "dream" come true for all those film buffs who like their movies full of oneiric imagery with random occurrences that, although set in a real world, do not make much sense!
November 27, 2011Super Reviewer
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