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	Fernando Rey	Don Rafael Acosta
	Paul Frankeur	François Thévenot
	Delphine Seyrig	Simone Thévenot
	Bulle Ogier	Florence
	Stéphane Audran	Alice Sénéchal
	Jean-Pierre Cassel	Henri Sénéchal
	Julien Bertheau	Monsignor Dufour
	Milena Vukotic	Ines
	Maria Gabriella Maione	Guerrilla
	Claude Pieplu	Colonel
	Muni	Peasant
	Pierre Maguelon	Police Sergeant
	François Maistre	Inspector Delecluze
	Michel Piccoli	Interior Minister
	Ellen Bahl
	Christian Baltauss	Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin
	Olivier Bauchet
	Robert Benoît
	Anne-Marie Deschodt
	Jean-Michel Dhermay
	Georges Douking	Gardener
	Jean Degrave
	Sébastien Floche
	François Guilloteau
	Claude Jaeger

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Director	Luis Bunuel
Writer	Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Producer	Serge Silberman
Photography	Edmond Richard

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Part of: Three Films by Luis Bunel

More than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch-iconoclast Luis Buñuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocations-The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire-in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and his own frequent on-screen alter ego Fernando Rey, Buñuel laced his scathing attacks on religion, class pretension, and moral hypocrisy with savage violence to create a trio of subversive, brutally funny masterpieces that explore the absurd randomness of existence. Among the director’s most radical works as well as some of his greatest international triumphs, these films cemented his legacy as cinema’s most incendiary revolutionary.


The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-middle-class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined, including terrorist attacks, military maneuvers, and ghostly apparitions. Stringing together a discontinuous, digressive series of absurdist set pieces, Buñuel and his screenwriting partner Jean-Claude Carrière send a cast of European-film greats-including Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Bulle Ogier-through a maze of desire deferred, frustrated, and interrupted. The Oscar-winning pinnacle of Buñuel’s late-career ascent as a feted maestro of the international art house, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is also one of his most gleefully radical assaults on the values of the ruling class.


BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
The Castaway of Providence Street, a 1971 homage to Luis Buñuel made by his longtime friends and fellow filmmakers Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo
Speaking of Buñuel, a documentary from 2000 on Buñuel’s life and work by José Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo
Once Upon a Time: “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” a 2011 television program about the making of the film
Episode of the French television program Pour le cinéma from 1972 that features behind-the-scenes footage of Buñuel on set, along with interviews with the director and with actors Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Fernando Rey, and Delphine Seyrig
Trailer
New English subtitle translation

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