The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
- Original title
- Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
- Year
- 1972
- Running time
- 100 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Fernando Rey
- Paul Frankeur
- Delphine Seyrig
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Stéphane Audran
- Michel Piccoli
- Bulle Ogier
- Julien Bertheau
- Milena Vukotic
- Maria Gabriella Maione
- Claude Piéplu
- Muni
- François Maistre
- Pierre Maguelon
- Maxence Mailfort
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- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production France-Italy-Spain;
- 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
- Awards
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1972: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture. 2 Nominations1972: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Foreign Film1973: BAFTA Awards: Best Actress (Audran) and Best Screenplay. 5 Nominations1972: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Director & Best Screenplay1972: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 2 awards. 3 nominations1972: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Five Foreing Films.
- Critics' reviews
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"Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match."
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"It combines a masterful command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom."
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"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."
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"Innovative, many layered and prevocative but very, very dated."
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- Ranking Lists Position
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- 74 My Favorite French Movies (48)
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