The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
10,137
Comedy. Drama
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 ... [+]
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United Kingdom | Empire | "Innovative, many layered and prevocative but very, very dated." | POS |
United States | Village Voice | "Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match." | POS |
United States | The New York Times | "It combines a masterful command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom." | POS |
United States | Austin Chronicle | "Strange, wacky, funny, and tragic -- and, on an incidental personal note, Discreet Charm is the movie that made me realize I was in love with movies." | POS |
United States | Chicago Reader | "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." | POS |
United Kingdom | The Guardian | "An exotic and brilliant hothouse flower of a film" | POS |
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