The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

1972·101'

Luis Buñuel

Comedy

French

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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.

Cast

Fernando Rey Don Rafael Delphine Seyrig Simone Thévenot Paul Frankeur François Thévenot Stéphane Audran Alice Sénéchal Bulle Ogier Florence Jean-Pierre Cassel Henri Sénéchal Julien Bertheau Monsignor Dufour Claude Piéplu Colonel Michel Piccoli Interior Minister François Maistre Inspector Delecluze Pierre Maguelon Police Sergeant Maxence Mailfort Sergeant Recounting Dream