The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Year
1972
Running time
100 min.
Country
France
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Cinematography
Producer
Co-production France-Italy-Spain;
Genre
Comedy. Drama | Surrealism. Satire
Synopsis
Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of six outwardly respectable upper-middle class members of society and their repeatedly thwarted attempts to have a meal together - the interruptions becoming more and more surreal as the film progresses.
Rankings Position
Awards
1972: Oscar: Best Foreign Language Picture. 2 Nominations
1972: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Foreign Film
1973: BAFTA Awards: Best Actress (Audran) and Best Screenplay. 5 Nominations
1972: New York Film Critics Circle: Nominated for Best Director & Best Screenplay
1972: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): 2 awards. 3 nominations
1972: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Five Foreing Films.
Critics' reviews
- "Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match."
- "It combines a masterful command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom."
- "Luis Buuel's 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to have a meal together, is perhaps the most perfectly achieved and executed of all his late French films."
- "Innovative, many layered and prevocative but very, very dated."
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Ranking Lists Position
- 67 My Favorite French Movies (52)
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