The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
by Javier Rioyo, Jos? Luis L?pez-Linares, Luis Bu?uel
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Actor: Delphine Seyrig, Ernesto Alonso, Fernando Rey, Jacqueline Andere, Pedro Armend?riz Jr.Director: Javier Rioyo, Jos? Luis L?pez-Linares, Luis Bu?uel
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Luis Bu?uel
Producer: Frida Torresblanco
Producer: Jorge S?nchez
Writer: Agust?n S?nchez Vidal
Writer: Jean-Claude Carri?re
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-02-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: The Stuff of Dreams
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" unfolds with the absurd logic of a recurrent dream, and since the DVD has been beautifully restored, one is able to dream the dream in vivid color: Elegantly dressed guests arrive for a dinner party only to have the hostess inform them that they have arrived on the wrong night; thus, they keep making appointments for dinners that are continually interrupted for one reason or another--all of the reasons being as patently ridiculous as are the characters: a bishop, who arrives at the house and asks to be hired as a gardener, and then relates the story of his macabre childhood; a soldier, who arrives at a restaurant (that has run out of tea and coffee), asks to join the ladies, whom he has never met before, and relates the story of his macabre childhood; a General, who arrives with his platoon a day early at the same house with the same hostess in time for dinner, and then, after the General invites a Private to relate the story of his macabre dream to the hosts and the invited guests (who listen attentively), both General and platoon depart for maneuvers (but not before inviting all the guests to his house for dinner, where even more macabre events unfold.). Thus, the dreams contain dreams within dreams within dreams within dreams within dreams et cetera ad absurdum.
This film is for anyone who has ever had recurrent nightmares of waiting for a bus on the wrong corner; of being about to take a test only to discover that one has studied the wrong subject; of being about give a lecture only to discover that one has forgotten the notes; or of performing on stage with a mouth stuffed with peanut-butter when one's cue is coming up. All the absurd commonplaces that make perfect sense when one is dreaming. And much of the "discreet charm" of the bourgeois characters in this film derives from the fact that one is dreaming their nightmares and not one's own.
Summary of The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - Criterion Collection
In Luis Bu?uel'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. Fernando Rey, St?phane Audran, Delphine Seyring, and Jean-Pierre Cassel head the extraordinary cast of this 1972 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. Criterion is proud to present The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in an exclusive Special Edition Double-Disc Set.What can be more enjoyable then a meal among friends and family? In Luis Bu?uel's surrealistic comedy The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie it is this common ritual a sextet of upper-class friends repeatedly attempt, only to be obstructed by one obscure event after another. Masterfully balancing the dichotomy of class vs. debauchery Bu?uel delivers a ripping critique of the upper class. It is clear from the beginning that the lives Bu?uel's Bourgeoisie are living are not what they seem. Eventually, their true colors begin to shine; not in actual actions but in haunting dreams. What is real and what lies in the subconscious becoming exceedingly blurry and in order to deliver his message, surrealism must take over. It is hard to pigeonhole Bu?uel's classic that won him the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film 1972: An absurd odyssey? A discreet satire? Not necessarily, but definitely charming. --Rob Bracco
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