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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Movie
1972
1h 41m
PG
French
Comedy
User Score: 
7.9
Critic Score: 
96
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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.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Poster

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

PG
Movie
1972
1h 41m
French
Comedy
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.
Rating
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7.9
IMDB
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CRITIC SCORE
96

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Fernando Rey
Don Rafael
Delphine Seyrig
Mme Thevenot
Paul Frankeur
M. Thevenot
Stphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal
Bulle Ogier
Florence
JeanPierre Cassel
M. Sénéchal
Julien Bertheau
Monseigneur Dufour
Claude Piplu
Le Colonel
Michel Piccoli
Le Ministre
Pierre Maguelon
Le sergent de police
Maxence Mailfort
Traum-Sergeant
Muni
Bäuerin
Christian Baltauss
Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin
Jacques Rispal
Un gendarme
Robert Benot
(uncredited)
Ellen Bahl
(uncredited)
Jean Degrave
(uncredited)
Directed By: Luis Buñuel
Written By: Luis Buñuel (Screenplay), Jean-Claude Carrière (Screenplay)

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atroxa says...
5 years ago
I like many of Buñuel's films, but this isn't one of them.
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eternum_uroboros says...
10 years ago
Oh my God it's 10/10!!!
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Obione_TdG says...
2 years ago
It manages to show the hypocrisy of the upper classes very well. It is overall a difficult film which needs a second viewing to be fully understood.
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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The original title of the film is Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie.
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Featured User Reviews

CinemaSerf
2 years ago
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 More
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talisencrw
6 years ago
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 More
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