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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Directed by
Luis Buñuel
PG
1972
1h 41m
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Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.
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Cast of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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
Milena Vukotić
Ines
Maria Gabriella Maione
Guerrilla
Muni
Peasant
Georges Douking
Gardener
Christian Baltauss
Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin
Bernard Musson
Waiter
Jacques Rispal
Gendarme
Robert Le Béal
Couturier
Robert Benoît
(uncredited)
Anne-Marie Deschodt
(uncredited)
Ellen Bahl
(uncredited)
Jean-Michel Dhermay
(uncredited)
Jean Degrave
(uncredited)
Sébastien Floche
(uncredited)
Claude Jaeger
(uncredited)
Pierre Lary
(uncredited)
Alix Mahieux
(uncredited)
Robert Party
(uncredited)
Amparo Soler Leal
(uncredited)
Madeleine Bouchez
Tea Salon Patron (uncredited)
Roger Caccia
Tea Salon Pianist (uncredited)
Olivier Bauchet
François Guilloteau
Jean-Claude Jarry
Jean Revel
Diane Vernon
Luis Buñuel
Director / Writer
Jean-Claude Carrière
Writer
Serge Silberman
Producer
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The charm of the film is that the old magician can show off his skills and make fun of them at the same time... There is nothing else in the movie -- just the surprises, and the pleasures of [Buñuel] dexterity as he springs them.
InSession Film
Brian Susbielles
Surrealist satire attacking the upper classes for their sexual morals, attraction to social status, and detachment from reality...
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Discreet Charm is a deadpan farce forever flirting with anarchy.
Easy Reader (California)
Neely Swanson
Absurdity is piled onto absurdity and reality and surreality blend until it is impossible to tell which is which.
The Atlantic
David Denby
Bunuel's art is as insolent as ever. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a deeply funny movie, as a viewing experience it's like walking across a perilous, sway little bridge whose guide rails periodically snatched away.
Backseat Mafia
Rob Aldam
A fascinating and thought-provoking work of cinema.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a deliciously pungent concoction by the 72-year-old filmmaker and his young co-scenarist, Jean-Claude Carriere, that will set your spirits soaring and your mind aglow.
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
Dreams nest within other dreams like so many Chinese puzzle boxes, while no dream belongs exclusively to a single dreamer, as though Buuel were toying with the Jungian notion of the collective unconscious.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Luis Buuel'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.
Variety
Variety Staff
Luis Bunuel adds another fine film to his solid record with this surrealistically oriented tale of so-called bourgeois types.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Buuel repeatedly takes on the gross presumptuousness of his characters--their unwillingness to admit defeat and to take things only at face value.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
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.
Dallas Morning News
Gary Dowell
An absurdly comic assault on the meaningless social rituals and polite hypocrisies of the upper middle class.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
For about 45 minutes, it's actually rather droll.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Most of the films of Luis Bunuel are comedies in one way or another, but he doesn't go for gags and punch lines; his comedy is more like a dig in the ribs, sly and painful.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
The film's discreet charm is Buuel's finesse.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Strange, wacky, funny, and tragic -- and, on an incidental personal note, Discreet Charm is the movie that made me realize I was in love with movies.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It combines a masterful command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
This has to be one of the most completely realized comedies ever made, and, in its odd way, one of the most civilized.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match.
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