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The Phantom of Liberty

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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

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Reviews Counted:35

Fresh:20

Rotten:15

Average Rating:3.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: A dreamlike, surrealistic film that playfully looks at politics, religion and sex. The film offers tantalizing fragments of narrative that it explores briefly and then leaves behind: a child... A dreamlike, surrealistic film that playfully looks at politics, religion and sex. The film offers tantalizing fragments of narrative that it explores briefly and then leaves behind: a child accepts some strange photographs from an unsavory character in a playground -- only the images aren't quite what one would expect; a nurse spends the night at an inn and meets some very bizarre priests; a sniper ascends a glistening new French skyscraper and shoots at the crowds below, only to become a celebrity, not a pariah; and tearful parents beg the police to find their missing child -- who's beside them the whole time insisting she's not lost. Bunuel attacks society's false pretensions to freedom, and its distorted ideas of liberty and religion in this crazy, off- beat comedy that goes from high wit to groundling guffaws. [More]

Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti, Adriana Asti

Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti, Adriana Asti

Director: Luis Buñuel

Director: Luis Buñuel

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07/18/05
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
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Buñuel has given Phantom a smoothness that may actually work against it. The film flows so easily, seems so perfectly executed, that its satirical attacks lack passion.

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07/18/05
Mike Pinsky
Mike Pinsky
DVD Verdict

Watching it on the heels of so many spoon-fed narratives is akin to the feeling of swallowing a penny as a child.

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07/06/05
Dylan Grant
Dylan Grant
MovieFreak.com

One of the most mesmerizing cases of dramatis interruptus ever put on film, ...Buñuel's masterwork The Phantom of Liberty will instantly loose many a modern moviegoer.

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Bill Gibron
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05/25/05
Christopher Long
Christopher Long
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The aesthetic make-up of The Phantom of Liberty is not only uniquely its own but it's also too cool for words.

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05/22/05
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