1972 · comedy · drama
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Directed by Luis Buñuel1h 41m1972
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.
Our read: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) reads as a neutral, measured, surreal comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- measured
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- signature
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