The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Plot Summary

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.

7.5 /10

1972

FR

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