The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Name: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1972-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.4

About The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

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.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a 1972 comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel. It runs 101 minutes and was released in September 1972.

Its themes are dreams, complex, nightmare, and restaurant.

Fernando Rey stars as Don Rafael, Delphine Seyrig as Simone Thévenot, Paul Frankeur as François Thévenot, and Stéphane Audran as Alice Sénéchal. The screenplay is by Jean-Claude Carrière and Luis Buñuel. In the United States it streams on BFI Player Amazon Channel.

Brazil, Sorry to Bother You, and Beau Is Afraid make useful companions to The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, all filed under satire and surrealism. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 948 votes and it carries a PG rating.