Fresh
Luis Bunuel'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
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972 · 1h 41m · PG
Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Luis Buñuel
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Overview
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.
Director and cast
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98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Luis Bunuel adds another fine film to his solid record with this surrealistically oriented tale of so-called bourgeois types.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
The chic stylishness of the characters comes over as overbearing rather than satirically revealing.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
An absurdly comic assault on the meaningless social rituals and polite hypocrisies of the upper middle class.
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News
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