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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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Original title

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

Year

1972

Running time

100 min.

Country

France

Director

Luis Buñuel

Screenwriter

Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière

Cast

Cinematography

Edmond Richard

Producer

Co-production France-Italy-Spain;

Greenwich Film Productions, Jet Films, Dean Film. Producer: Alfredo Matas

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Surrealism. Satire

Synopsis

Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of six outwardly respectable upper-middle class members of society and their repeatedly thwarted attempts to have a meal together - the interruptions becoming more and more surreal as the film progresses.

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Rankings Position

#69 Best French Movies of all time
#83 Best Movies of the '70s

Awards: 1972: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture. 2 Nominations

1972: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Foreign Film

1973: BAFTA Awards: Best Actress (Audran) and Best Screenplay. 5 Nominations

1972: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Director & Best Screenplay

1972: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 2 awards. 3 nominations

1972: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Five Foreing Films.

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Critics' reviews

"Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match."

J. Hoberman: Village Voice
"It combines a masterful command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"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."

Marjorie Baumgarten: Austin Chronicle
"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."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"Innovative, many layered and prevocative but very, very dated."

David Parkinson: Empire
"An exotic and brilliant hothouse flower of a film"

Peter Bradshaw: The Guardian

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Ranking Lists Position

66 My Favorite French Movies (53)

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