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15/09/1972
Comedy
1h 41m
- 75% (845 votes)
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Overview
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.
- Luis BuñuelDirector, Screenplay
- Jean-Claude CarrièreScreenplay
Original Title
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Status
Released
Original Language
French
Budget
$800,000
Revenue
$103,230
Keywords
- diplomat
- dreams
- nightmare
- upper class
- date
- drug trafficking
- guest
- bishop
- restaurant
- surreal
- bourgeoisie
- satire
- surrealism
- dinner
- terrorism
- drink
- oneiric
- dream within a dream
- small talk
- anarchic comedy
- absurd
- unexpected situation
Top Billed Cast
Fernando Rey
Don Rafael
Delphine Seyrig
Simone Thévenot
Paul Frankeur
François Thévenot
Stéphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal
Bulle Ogier
Florence
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Henri Sénéchal
Julien Bertheau
Monsignor Dufour
Claude Piéplu
Colonel
Michel Piccoli
Interior Minister
François Maistre
Inspector Delecluze
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