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Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
1972 Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Review
This is a totally off the wall but brilliantly funny comment on bourgeois life in France
of the early 1970s. As in his earlier film, Belle du jour, director Luis
Bunuel mingles reality and fantasy to the point that, in the end, we cannot distinguish
the two. Using Russian doll-like dreams within dreams and surreal, often disturbing,
vignettes, Bunuel takes great pleasure in mocking the superficiality and insensitivity
of bourgeois attitudes. The result is a film that is ceaselessly unpredictable,
outrageously funny, and compelling viewing.
© James Travers 1999
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Director:
Luis Buñuel
Starring: Fernando Rey, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran Synopsis
A group of middle-class friends try to get together for a dinner party, but their attempts
are constantly thwarted. First, the guests arrive a day early at their friends’
house. They go off to a restaurant, but are put off when they see a corpse laid
out in an adjoining room. The next time, the guests arrive, but the hosts are making
love in the garden. Suspecting that they have entered a police trap (since they
are involved in drug smuggling), the guests make a hurried departure. The next dinner
date is disturbed my army manoeuvres, and so it continues, with increasing surrealism.
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