The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

7.5

Sep 15 1972

2h 41m

Comedy

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

Fernando Rey

Don Rafael

Delphine Seyrig

Delphine Seyrig

Mme Thevenot

Paul Frankeur

Paul Frankeur

M. Thevenot

Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran

Alice Sénéchal

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