Strange and fantastic picture being compellingly directed by the Spanish maestro of surrealism . A drug-trafficking ambassador operates with a group of French bourgeoises. They're planning a dinner , but the food never gets a chance to arrive at the table . Every time they want to meet for dinner, an unforeseen circumstance prevents their project. Dreams and reality , actual or contrived , prevent their feast . One of Bunuel's most rare and amazing , ¨Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie¨ in similar style to ¨The Exterminating Angel¨ is packed with surreal moments , criticism , absurd situations and astonishing nightmares . This is one Buñuel's best , including characteristically scatological satire , fierce as well as surreal nightmares and surprising events . Comedy/drama film about strange relationships among various members of middle class at a restaurant or a mansion mansion wherein some dinner guests find they cannot for any definable reason leave the dining room .
Buñuel in top form on a weird story about a group of burgeoise class , a drama with comical elements , surrealism and sour portrait upon social stratum , catholicism , with plenty of dream imaginary and many other things .Being stunningly realized by the Spanish maestro of surrealism , the great Luis Buñuel and Oscar for Best Foreign Film. A Buñuel joke on his audience using a silly excuse for series od surrealist and disconcerting incidentes . This is a typical Buñuel film , as there are a lot of symbolism , social critique , including mockery or wholesale review upon bourgeoisie , terrorism and religion , especially Catholicism . Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both subversive behavior and religion , issues well shown in a lot of films and that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career . Illusion and reality soon blur into one , with delicious hilarious results . Interesting and thought-provoking screenplay from director Luis Buñuel himself and Jean-Claude Carrière , Buñuel's usual screenwriter. Here Buñuel gives a perverse studio about wealthy people , desire and tension when a misfit bunch wanting to dinner , but every time the guests or hosts attempt to start the meal, some outside problem rises . These six roles are forever sitting down to dinner , yet never eat are well-played by all-French-star cast , such as : Paul Frankeur , Delphine Seyrig , Bulle Ogier , Stéphane Audran , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Julien Bertheau , Milena Vukotic , Michel Piccoli , and , of course , Spanish Fernando Rey , Buñuel's regular. The film relies heavily on the relationship between them ; along the way , love-hatred conflicts and bizarre set pieces are developed . Furthermore , Buñuel satirizes and he carries out outright critical to bourgeoisie and attack upon religion . It displays an atmospheric as well as evocative cinematography by cameraman Edmond Richard .
This thoughtful and serious/comic motion picture satirizing modern society was well produced by Serge Silberman and compellingly directed by Luis Buñuel who was voted the 14th Greatest Director of all time . This Buñuel's strange film belongs to his French period ; in fact , it's plenty of known French actors . Born in Calanda , Aragon (1900) , Buñuel subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the university there, where his close friends included Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca. After moving to Paris , at the beginning Buñuel did a variety of film-related odd jobs , including working as an assistant to director Jean Epstein . With financial help from his mother and creative assistance from Dalí, he made his first film , this 17-minute "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), and immediately catapulted himself into film history thanks to its disturbing images and surrealist plot . The following year , sponsored by wealthy art patrons, he made his first picture , the scabrous witty and violent "Age of Gold" (1930), which mercilessly attacked the church and the middle classes, themes that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career . That career, though, seemed almost over by the mid-1930s, as he found work increasingly hard to come by and after the Spanish Civil War , where he made ¨Las Hurdes¨ , as Luis emigrated to the US where he worked for the Museum of Modern Art and as a film dubber for Warner Bros . He subsequently went on his Mexican period he teamed up with producer Óscar Dancigers and after a couple of unmemorable efforts shot back to international attention with the lacerating study of Mexican street urchins in ¨Los Olvidados¨ (1950), winning him the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. But despite this new-found acclaim, Buñuel spent much of the next decade working on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries , though many of them are well worth seeking out . As he went on filming "The Great Madcap" , ¨The brute¨, "Wuthering Heights", ¨El¨ , "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De la Cruz" , ¨Robinson Crusoe¨ , ¨Death in the garden¨ and many others . After returning his native country, Spain, by making ¨Viridiana¨ this film was prohibited on the grounds of blasphemy as well as ¨The milky way¨ or "Via Lactea , both of them were strongly prohibited by Spanish censorship . Most Buñuel's films were surreal black comedies , parables that satirized moral hypocrisy , social moral , artistic pretension, and , of course , the Catholic Church . In French-Spanish final period the collaboration with producer Serge Silberman and writer Jean-Claude Carrière gave notorious as well as polemic films such as ¨Viridiana¨ , and ¨Belle De Jour¨. His last one was the notorious ¨That obscure object of desire¨ (1977). Rating ¨The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" : 6/10. Typically Buñuel, typically French and typically hilarious movie.
Buñuel in top form on a weird story about a group of burgeoise class , a drama with comical elements , surrealism and sour portrait upon social stratum , catholicism , with plenty of dream imaginary and many other things .Being stunningly realized by the Spanish maestro of surrealism , the great Luis Buñuel and Oscar for Best Foreign Film. A Buñuel joke on his audience using a silly excuse for series od surrealist and disconcerting incidentes . This is a typical Buñuel film , as there are a lot of symbolism , social critique , including mockery or wholesale review upon bourgeoisie , terrorism and religion , especially Catholicism . Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both subversive behavior and religion , issues well shown in a lot of films and that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career . Illusion and reality soon blur into one , with delicious hilarious results . Interesting and thought-provoking screenplay from director Luis Buñuel himself and Jean-Claude Carrière , Buñuel's usual screenwriter. Here Buñuel gives a perverse studio about wealthy people , desire and tension when a misfit bunch wanting to dinner , but every time the guests or hosts attempt to start the meal, some outside problem rises . These six roles are forever sitting down to dinner , yet never eat are well-played by all-French-star cast , such as : Paul Frankeur , Delphine Seyrig , Bulle Ogier , Stéphane Audran , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Julien Bertheau , Milena Vukotic , Michel Piccoli , and , of course , Spanish Fernando Rey , Buñuel's regular. The film relies heavily on the relationship between them ; along the way , love-hatred conflicts and bizarre set pieces are developed . Furthermore , Buñuel satirizes and he carries out outright critical to bourgeoisie and attack upon religion . It displays an atmospheric as well as evocative cinematography by cameraman Edmond Richard .
This thoughtful and serious/comic motion picture satirizing modern society was well produced by Serge Silberman and compellingly directed by Luis Buñuel who was voted the 14th Greatest Director of all time . This Buñuel's strange film belongs to his French period ; in fact , it's plenty of known French actors . Born in Calanda , Aragon (1900) , Buñuel subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the university there, where his close friends included Salvador Dalí and Federico García Lorca. After moving to Paris , at the beginning Buñuel did a variety of film-related odd jobs , including working as an assistant to director Jean Epstein . With financial help from his mother and creative assistance from Dalí, he made his first film , this 17-minute "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), and immediately catapulted himself into film history thanks to its disturbing images and surrealist plot . The following year , sponsored by wealthy art patrons, he made his first picture , the scabrous witty and violent "Age of Gold" (1930), which mercilessly attacked the church and the middle classes, themes that would preoccupy Buñuel for the rest of his career . That career, though, seemed almost over by the mid-1930s, as he found work increasingly hard to come by and after the Spanish Civil War , where he made ¨Las Hurdes¨ , as Luis emigrated to the US where he worked for the Museum of Modern Art and as a film dubber for Warner Bros . He subsequently went on his Mexican period he teamed up with producer Óscar Dancigers and after a couple of unmemorable efforts shot back to international attention with the lacerating study of Mexican street urchins in ¨Los Olvidados¨ (1950), winning him the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival. But despite this new-found acclaim, Buñuel spent much of the next decade working on a variety of ultra-low-budget films, few of which made much impact outside Spanish-speaking countries , though many of them are well worth seeking out . As he went on filming "The Great Madcap" , ¨The brute¨, "Wuthering Heights", ¨El¨ , "The Criminal Life of Archibaldo De la Cruz" , ¨Robinson Crusoe¨ , ¨Death in the garden¨ and many others . After returning his native country, Spain, by making ¨Viridiana¨ this film was prohibited on the grounds of blasphemy as well as ¨The milky way¨ or "Via Lactea , both of them were strongly prohibited by Spanish censorship . Most Buñuel's films were surreal black comedies , parables that satirized moral hypocrisy , social moral , artistic pretension, and , of course , the Catholic Church . In French-Spanish final period the collaboration with producer Serge Silberman and writer Jean-Claude Carrière gave notorious as well as polemic films such as ¨Viridiana¨ , and ¨Belle De Jour¨. His last one was the notorious ¨That obscure object of desire¨ (1977). Rating ¨The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" : 6/10. Typically Buñuel, typically French and typically hilarious movie.