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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

Comedy
Release Date: 1972, September 15
Directors: Luis Buñuel
Countries: France
Production: Greenwich Film Production
Cast: Jacques Rispal, Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig, Robert Le Béal, Bernard Musson, Milena Vukotić, Anne-Marie Deschodt, Maria Gabriella Maione, Michel Piccoli, Muni, François Maistre

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.

Keywords:

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