PGThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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Play Time: 101 mins
Comedy
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Overview:
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.

Original Title:Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Status: Released (1972-09-15)
Awards:Won 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 9 nominations total
BoxOffice:$82,471
Screen:Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Productions: Greenwich Film Production
Production Countries: France, Italy, Spain
Spoken Languages: Français, Español
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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talisencrw

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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 acr ....

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CinemaSerf

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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. ....

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