A tour de force, a triumph by a director confronting almost impossible complications and contradictions and mastering them. It's very funny, all right, but remember: With Buñuel, you only laugh when it hurts.
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05/13/05
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
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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... [More]
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti, Adriana Asti
Director: Luis Buñuel
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Top CriticThe physical production is stunning to look at. The cast is large, first-rate, but the presence that dazzles us is that of the Old Master, just off screen, mercilessly testing our senses of sanity and humor.
05/09/05
Top CriticAlbeit scattershot, Phantom does cohere as a satire of keeping up appearances in which everything is as it appears.
11/05/02
Top CriticThe challenging lack of a narrative center doesn't prevent this film from having a great deal to say about the modern world and its ambivalent grasp of freedom.
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