The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Sep 15, 1972

1h 41m

★ 7.5

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.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Greenwich Film Production

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Cast

Don Rafael

Fernando Rey

Simone Thévenot

Delphine Seyrig

François Thévenot

Paul Frankeur

Alice Sénéchal

Stéphane Audran

Florence

Bulle Ogier

Henri Sénéchal

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Monsignor Dufour

Julien Bertheau

Colonel

Claude Piéplu

Interior Minister

Michel Piccoli

Inspector Delecluze

François Maistre

Police Sergeant

Pierre Maguelon

Sergeant Recounting Dream

Maxence Mailfort

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