The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

7.5(895)19721h 41m

Comedy

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.

Director

Luis Buñuel

Budget

$0.8M

Revenue

$0.1M

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Cast

Fernando Rey

Don Rafael

Delphine Seyrig

Simone Thévenot

Paul Frankeur

François Thévenot

Stéphane Audran

Alice Sénéchal

Bulle Ogier

Florence

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Henri Sénéchal

Julien Bertheau

Monsignor Dufour

Claude Piéplu

Colonel

Michel Piccoli

Interior Minister

François Maistre

Inspector Delecluze

Pierre Maguelon

Police Sergeant

Maxence Mailfort

Sergeant Recounting Dream

Reviews

2 reviews

talisencrw

9y ago

10.0

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 my mouth to watch this one, by my fourth favourite director ever ('Viridiana' is still probably my f...

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

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 on good form as the Ambassador from the Republic of "Miranda" - a man living in fear for his life fr...