Synopsis
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. Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, 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 double-disc special edition.
Cast
| Rafael Acosta, the ambassador | Fernando Rey |
| Henri Sénéchal | Jean-Pierre Cassel |
| François Thévenot | Paul Frankeur |
| Simone Thévenot | Delphine Seyrig |
| Alice Sénéchal | Stéphane Audran |
| Florence, her sister | Bulle Ogier |
| The minister | Michel Piccoli |
| Monsignor Dufour | Julien Bertheau |
| Inès, the maid | Milena Vukotic |
| The guerilla | Maria Gabriella Maione |
| The colonel | Claude Piéplu |
| The peasant woman | Muni |
| The bloody sergeant | Pierre Maguelon |
Credits
| Director | Luis Buñuel |
| Screenplay | Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière |
| Producer | Serge Silberman |
| Cinematography | Edmond Richard |
| Art director | Pierre Guffroy |
| Editing | Hélène Plemiannikov |
| Sound | Guy Villette |
| Sound effects | Luis Buñuel |
| Makeup | Odette Berroyer and Fernande Hugi |
| Costumes | Jacqueline Guyot |
Disc Features
- Beautiful new widescreen high-definition transfer of the film, enhanced for 16×9 televisions
- El náufrago de la calle de Providencia (The Castaway on the Street of Providence, 1970): a 24-minute documentary homage to Buñuel by his longtime friends Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo
- A propósito de Buñuel (Speaking of Buñuel, 2000): a new 98-minute documentary on the life and work of Buñuel by Jose Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo
- Buñuel filmography
- Original theatrical trailer
- New and improved optional English subtitle translation
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie
by Dec 18, 2000SEEING: In his sixties, Buñuel finally achieved the choice of subject matter, the means, the creative freedom so long denied him. But Buñuel has always proved hardier than the minimal or optimal conditions of production offered him; he constantly remarks that, given a $5-million budget, he would...
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