The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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.
- Year: 1972
- Country: France, Italy, Spain
- Genre: Comedy
- Studio: Greenwich Film Production
- Keyword: diplomat, dreams, nightmare, upper class, date, drug trafficking, guest, bishop, restaurant, surreal, bourgeoisie, satire, surrealism, dinner, terrorism, drink, dream within a dream, small talk, anarchic comedy, absurd, unexpected situation
- Director: Luis Buñuel
- Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Stéphane Audran, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Cassel