The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Name: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Movie
Rating: 4.8

Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language film 1973

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.

Release Date : 15 Sep, 1972

Duration : 1h 41m

Generes : Comedy

Vote Average : 7.536 Vote Count : 692 Popularity : 13.89

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Status

Released

Original Language

Français

Production Country

France

Budget

$ 800,000

THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL International

Reviews

A review by talisencrw

Written by talisencrw on 16 Aug, 2016

This came in the outstanding 10-DVD boxed set 'Rialto Pictures: 10 Years', one of the finest things I've bought from The Criterion Collection (and a great deal too, one I'd heartily endorse). I had to wait an entire day, after watching the dreadful 'Disaster Movie', to get the acrid taste out of ...

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 19 Sep, 2022

It's quite a difficult film to review this, as it essentially has no real plot and very little structure. It is a series of dream sequences following a group of friends - each with some form of skeleton in their closet - as they try to meet for a dinner that repeatedly gets aborted. Fernando Rey is ...