One of Luis Bunuel's greatest and funniest films, and the winner of a Best Foreign Film Oscar, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE is a brilliant surrealistic joke about a group of friends whose attempts to dine are continually thwarted.
Don Raphael (Fernando Rey), the ambassador to France of a Latin American country called Miranda, Francois Thevenot (Paul Frankeur), his wife Simone (Delphine Seyrig) and her sister Florence (Bulle Ogier) drive to their friend Henri Senechal's (Jean-Pierre Cassel) villa for dinner, but are told by
his wife Alice (Stephane Audran) that their dinner was scheduled for the next evening. They all go to a restaurant, but leave after ...
Released:
1972
Rated:
PG
Length:
101 mins