The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Overview
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.
Reviews (2)
talisencrw (Rated: 10)
This came in the outstanding 10-DVD boxed set 'Rialto Pictures: 10 Years', one of the finest things I've bought from The Criterion Collection (and a great deal too, one I'd heartily endorse).
I had to wait an entire day, after watching the dreadful 'Disaster Movie', to get the acrid taste out of ...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
It's quite a difficult film to review this, as it essentially has no real plot and very little structure. It is a series of dream sequences following a group of friends - each with some form of skeleton in their closet - as they try to meet for a dinner that repeatedly gets aborted. Fernando Rey is ...
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