The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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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.
| Released | 15 Sep 1972 |
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| Genres | Comedy |
| Runtime | 1 hour, 41 minutes |
| Countries | France, Italy, Spain |
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Buñuel once said that “…a film is a dream being directed.” The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie is precisely that, a dream inside a dream that is dreamt by the dream of another dreamer. I could have chosen The Exterminator Angel or The Phantom of Liberty, but this particular film’s humour and social commentary are so clever that they make it clear we cannot and should not underestimate the wisdom and power of the subconscious.
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