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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

PG ★ 7.4/10 101 min Comedy France French
Director: Luis Buñuel
Screenplay by: Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel
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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.

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Top Cast

Fernando Rey
Fernando Rey Don Rafael
Delphine Seyrig
Delphine Seyrig Simone Thévenot
Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur François Thévenot
Stéphane Audran
Stéphane Audran Alice Sénéchal
Bulle Ogier
Bulle Ogier Florence
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Pierre Cassel Henri Sénéchal
Julien Bertheau
Julien Bertheau Monsignor Dufour
Claude Piéplu
Claude Piéplu Colonel

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Appears on 14 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #459
Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures #320
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #101
Metacritic Must-See Movies of All-Time (Metascore: 81+/100) Redux
Metacritic #196
Russian Culture Ministry’s 100 Recommended Films
Russian Culture Ministry #26

Critic Curated

BBC Culture: 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films
BBC #84
BBC Culture: The 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time
BBC #49
Paste Magazine The 100 Best French Films of All Time
Paste Magazine #61
Roger Eberts Great Movies
Roger Ebert #97
Rolling Stone - The 100 Best Movies Of The 1970s
Rolling Stone #83
Rotten Tomatoes 300 Best Movies Of All Time
Rotten Tomatos #220

Filmmaker Curation

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Favorite Movies
Letterboxd #09
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Letterboxd #454
Movies Amy Seimetz Has Said She Likes
Letterboxd #44

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