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| Director: Luis Bunuel
Actors: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier, Stephane Audran
Studio: Cinematheque Collection
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 32879
Format: Color, Ntsc
Languages: French (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 630240584X
UPC: 000799700037
EAN: 9786302405842
ASIN: 630240584X
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1972
Release Date: July 24, 1992
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Condition: NOT an ex-rental, video box cut and slid into clamshell case cover
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 Like the perfect dry martini... March 18, 2005
M. Bromberg (Atlanta, GA United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Film buffs of a certain age will find this two-disc version a real feast: a Bunuel documentary with home movies of the director demonstrating how to make the perfect martini -- which finds an echo in the film itself -- is a wonderful treat, and the original movie is beautifully restored. Of course, then there are the cockroaches scurrying from the piano during the torture scene....and the priest administering the most extreme of last rites. Bunuel's sharp critique of bourgeois morals, religion, and political corruption is at once comic and horrible, the film's characters blissfully unaware (except in their own dreams) of their own desperation. These are old themes, perhaps, but the emptiness of these lives is striking. It will all seem pointless and a bit silly to some who see this movie for the first time, but the endless absurdity of the final image -- you mean that's it? -- makes the director's message clear: for these characters, there just isn't any more.
Incredible Charm of Surrealism March 16, 2007
Galina (Virginia, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are not many artists who could tell the same joke over and over again and get away with it creating the film as brilliant, funny, absurd, witty, and clever as Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", 1972. The story of six friends who try to arrange and have a nice dinner together but cannot complete (or even start) their meal does not sound very exiting but wait until you watch this comedy. I've always known how interesting surrealism is but I never thought how funny it could be. I've seen the film four or five times - it only gets better with each viewing. Highly recommended.
Fantastic Transfer, Excellent Supplements January 26, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok, we all know that this is a really great film. But what's truely wonderful about this DVD is the transfer and the two documentaries. Both of them feature interviews with not only Bunuel and other well known Spanish writers, such as Fuentes, but those who knew the man personally. The recent documentary is not only fun to watch with it's many anecdotes and lively personalities, but also informative on Bunuel and the history of surrealism in Spain and France. The older documentary features plenty of rare footage of Bunuel talking and living it up. Almost every Bunuel film deserves this kind of treatment when transferred to DVD. He was one of the few great artists who never compromised his vision, wit, or ideals and is a giant stain on the mediocrity of today's filmmakers.
Couple of people trying to have some lunch ???! October 19, 2002
Vlad (russianwriter.net)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Lois Bunuel at his best ! Few people trying to have some lunch ?! But everything goes wrong ... One of the smartest and funniest films , I've ever seen . The dream " stuff " working perfectly . This was a russian remake of it in late 80th - " Forgotten melody for the fluite ", with the use of the same " tricks " in it . Didn't really work . Just another robbery of an exellent idea ... nothing more . Get ready for very unusual , smart , deap , unpredictable film !
Bunuel doing what he does best January 24, 2006
Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Luis Bunuel was an old hand by this time at making surrealistic, dream-dominated comedies, and he throws this one off with seeming ease. His targets are the usual ones: the rich, the church, the military, and diplomacy, but he is more playful here and mellow rather than savage in his satire. A group of rich people (one of the men is an ambassador of a fictitious South American country and all the men are involved with drug smuggling) is trying to sit down to a meal together (at various times), but they keep getting interrupted - by terrorists, the army, the police, even by a corpse. It's weird and crazy, but it works. As to be expected, the dream sequences are the best and funniest things in the movie. It won the Acadamy Award for best foreign picture and deservedly so.
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