The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

This is Luis Buñuel at his very best! A sarcastic view on the life of corrupt elites while the boundaries between dreams and reality (and later on, the linearities of time and space) become increasingly blurred. A late entry into his filmography befitting one of the founding fathers of surrealist cinema.

Oh my God it's 10/10!!!

It manages to show the hypocrisy of the upper classes very well. It is overall a difficult film which needs a second viewing to be fully understood.

The original title of the film is Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie.

I like many of Buñuel's films, but this isn't one of them.

Like a joke in a foreign language, it doesn't make any sense, isn't funny and is impossible to understand.

This farce is a series of bad skits that poke fun at the usual suspects (religion, politics and cops) without saying anything. The it-was-all-a-dream running joke gets old as soon as it starts and the lack of any drive (it's neither story nor character driven) drives the movie into the ground.

This was probably revolutionary when it was released 50 years ago, but speaking as someone who goes to the movies to escape, I was held prisoner to this film's indifference.

Continues to confirm my rule of thumb that any movie that purports to comment on the bourgeoisie is just not for me. What's more, this seemed like an odd and more tiresome inversion of The Exterminating Angel, which was actually a movie that I liked quite a bit.

The particular world of Buñuel.