It's all too familiar Buñuel and lacks the bite of some of his earlier and sharper edged films.
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08/25/09
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:37
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE is Luis Buñuel's scathing and surrealistic political comedy masterpiece about a wealthy group of friends repeatedly prevented from beginning their elaborate... [More]
Starring: Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Reviews for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Innovative, many layered and prevocative but very, very dated.
04/20/09
Of the four absurdist comedies the director made towards the end of his life, this is the best and most accessible.
04/20/09
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.
04/20/09
Top CriticLuis Bunuel adds another fine film to his solid record with this surrealistically oriented tale of so-called bourgeois types.
12/04/08
Top CriticBuñuel 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,.
08/07/08
No review available.
04/06/07
A delicious comedy of manners, Bunuel's Oscar winner is a descendant of the audaciously surreal Golden Age and disturbingly allegorical Exterminating Angel, without the anger or scandal--a light satire of the trivial and conformist bourgeois lifestyle.
03/02/07
The chic stylishness of the characters comes over as overbearing rather than satirically revealing.
01/26/06
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
09/14/05
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08/12/05
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.
08/04/05
Não apenas um olhar cínico (e divertido) sobre nossas fachadas sociais, mas também uma brincadeira inteligente com a própria linguagem do Cinema.
05/29/05
A true treasure of cinema from one its masters.
07/19/04
No review available.
11/14/03
Buñuel repeatedly takes on the gross presumptuousness of his characters--their unwillingness to admit defeat and to take things only at face value.
09/13/03
How do keep a film about insane repetition from feeling insanely repetitious?
08/16/03
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.
07/30/03
In his 1972 comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, one of cinema’s most brilliant directors made the most brilliant film of his career.
02/23/03
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.
01/16/03
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