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The Phantom of Liberty
Directed by
Luis Buñuel
R
1974
1h 44m
Comedy
,
Drama
7.8
85%
91%
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A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
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Cast of The Phantom of Liberty
Adriana Asti
La dame en noir, la soeur du premier préfet
Milena Vukotić
L'infirmière
Jean-Claude Brialy
M. Foucault
Monica Vitti
Mme Foucault
Jean Rochefort
M. Legendre
Michel Piccoli
Le deuxième préfet de police
Adolfo Celi
Le médécin
Claude Piéplu
Le commissaire
Paul Frankeur
L'aubergiste
Pierre Maguelon
Le gendarme
François Maistre
Le professeur
Marie-France Pisier
Mme Calmette
Michael Lonsdale
Le chapelier
Paul Le Person
Le père Gabriel
Julien Bertheau
Le premier préfet de police
Maxence Mailfort
Le lieutenant des dragons
Hélène Perdrière
La tante
Pierre-François Pistorio
Le neuveu
Pascale Audret
Mme Legendre
Anne-Marie Deschodt
Edith Rosenblum
Bernard Verley
Le capitaine des Dragons
Jenny Astruc
La femme du professeur
Ellen Bahl
Philippe Brigaud
Le satyre
Philippe Brizard
Agnès Capri
La directrice d'école
Jean Champion
Le premier médecin
Jacques Debary
Le président du tribunal
Jean-Michel Dhermay
Pierre Lary
L'assassin acquitté
Marius Laurey
Le gardien du cimetière
Alix Mahieux
Guy Montagné
Un moine
Bernard Musson
Le père Raphaël
Muni
Jean Mauvais
Un agent de police
Marcel Pérès
Jean Rougerie
Charles
André Rouyer
Le brigadier
Marianne Borgo
Auguste Carrière
Jean Degrave
Orane Demazis
Luis Buñuel
Un condamné à mort (uncredited)
The Phantom of Liberty Reviews
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Bunuel's most uninhibited venture though audacious and satisfying my Bunuel pangs, lacks a bite or enough charm to appeal to the masses.
TV Guide
Michael Scheinfeld
An uproarious summary of Luis Bunuel's surrealistic concerns in a collection of anecdotes starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, and Monica Vitti.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The 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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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 Buuel, you only laugh when it hurts.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Made near the end of Buñuel's career, it's not his greatest movie, but it contains some of his most memorable moments.
Filmcritic.com
Jake Euker
as illusory as a dream about a mailman and as real as the letter you find in your hand
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
This heady masterwork isn't particularly easy to decipher, but it's best approached as the literal comedy of manners Buuel intends it to be.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
one of Buñuel's most narratively unconventional films, stringing together a series of loosely connected vignettes that focus on various illogical situations and absurdities.
Film Comment Magazine
Richard Roud
Beneath its lucid exterior, beneath its classical style, The Spectre of Liberty is one of those poetic works: a coherent enigma, inexhaustibly prismatic.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Albeit scattershot, Phantom does cohere as a satire of keeping up appearances in which everything is as it appears.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The 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.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
Much that has been hailed as Buñuel's profundity is merely self-purgation: catharsis for himself rather than for his audience. Though this may be the commonest motive for artistic creation, it is, by itself, insufficient.
Los Angeles Free Press
LAFP Staff
The result is funny, frustrating and thought-provoking.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
The Phantom of Liberty moves with great confidence and comfort. Odd that such a wicked film should feel comfortable, but there you have it. That's Bunuel.
Wall Street Journal
Joy Gould Boyum
Superb and marvelously witty.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The domesticated surrealism of this picture has no sting, no bite, and no aftereffect. At most, it's amusing, at worst, it's tedious.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Episodic assemblies of absurdist jokes...
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