The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Name: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Director: Luis Buñuel
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1972
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 7.461

1972·Directed by Luis Buñuel·4·1h 41m

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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.

Recommended by 7 People

“The vote for Luis Buñuel's enduringly funny surrealist farce represents his well-known predilection for humor, often class-based, which occasionally melts into silliness.”

Woody Allen

Actor, Comedian, Director, Musician, Writer

“A delicious incursion into the bourgeoisie. Flavorful performances, surprising turning points, incredible finale, and, as always in Buñuel's cinema, a scrupulous care for details.”

Xavier Dolan

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer

“Oh, my favorite filmmaker ever. I couldn't leave him out, Luis Buñuel.”

Yorgos Lanthimos

Director

“The dramaturgy the craziness the concepts that he was talking about it's so so sophisticated and modern and yet with a lot of humor and a lot of intelligence as well.”

Gael García Bernal

Actor, Director

“I think that would be the perfect title for my new feature film Force Majeure—it should have actually had the name The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.”