The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
I watched this for the first time last night and oh wow, what a fun and beautiful film.
Luis Buñuel directs a truly all star cast; Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Julien Bertheau, Michel Piccoli, and Fernando Rey
The film makes absolute no sense.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 20 | August 12, 2024 3:54 AM
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It IS The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 11, 2024 9:01 PM
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This might be up my alley. Thanks, OP, as I had never heard of it.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 11, 2024 9:03 PM
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R2 It is a fun French film, a lot of good sex, food, and drinking
by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 11, 2024 9:06 PM
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A French movie? You're going to wake up the Alain Delon troll.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | August 11, 2024 9:10 PM
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It is an absurdist take on a certain set. Think Sondheim’s “Company” or Wolfe’s “Radical Chic”.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 11, 2024 9:10 PM
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It's more like Three's Company.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 11, 2024 9:13 PM
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The wonderful trailer made for the 2012 40th Anniversary reissue.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | August 11, 2024 10:02 PM
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An absolute favorite film for which i have great affection. I've seen it at least once a year for almost 50 years. Barely a day goes by that the film doesn't come to mind.
At 17 and a couple months into college, a small group of friends and I went to see this as the first in a retrospective of Buñuel in a nearby city. The film was then 5 years old but new to me and a great delight and ultimately a great influence.
I owe some not small gratitude to Buñuel for not expecting things to go to plan; in welcoming oddity and interruption and the absurd; in the value of listening to stories; in that death is never far off nor any moment unimportant. And for the images of smartly dressed French people marking briskly along a country road, of Fernando Rey's strange presence, of ghosts among the living; of manners and building facades and the things they hide...
Buñuel's films are favorites, and this one above all for me.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 11, 2024 10:27 PM
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Making no sense was a thing for a while especially in Europe. Dada in art, Bunuel and Godard in film, Beckett in literature etc.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 11, 2024 10:49 PM
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I'm fairly obsessed with Delphine Seyrig since seeing "Daughters of Darkness."
by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 11, 2024 11:20 PM
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A movie that has stuck with me and a great movie to show someone new to the concept of surrealism.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | August 11, 2024 11:27 PM
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R12 Have you seen Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles ?????/
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 14 | August 11, 2024 11:32 PM
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R14 Not yet! But I have watched the potato peeling more than once - lol
by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 12, 2024 1:55 AM
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Milena Vukotic (89) and Bulle Ogier (85) are still alive and working.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | August 12, 2024 3:08 AM
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Bulle Ogier was Florence, the fun loving/drunk one!
by Anonymous | reply 20 | August 12, 2024 3:54 AM
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