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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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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Empire
Empire
"Innovative, many layered and prevocative but very, very dated." POS
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Village Voice
Village Voice
"Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match." POS
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The New York Times
The New York Times
"It combines a masterful command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom." POS
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Austin Chronicle
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
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Chicago Reader
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 KingdomUnited Kingdom
The Guardian
The Guardian
"An exotic and brilliant hothouse flower of a film"  POS
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