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	Adriana Asti	La dame en noir et la soeur du premier préfet
	Julien Bertheau	Le premier préfet de police
	Jean-Claude Brialy	Foucauld
	Adolfo Celi	Le docteur de Legendre
	Paul Frankeur	L'aubergiste
	Michael Lonsdale	Le chapelier
	Pierre Maguelon	Gérard / le gendarme
	François Maistre	Le professeur des gendarmes
	Helene Perdriere	La vieille tante
	Michel Piccoli	Le second préfet de police
	Claude Pieplu	Le commissaire de police
	Jean Rochefort	Legendre
	Bernard Verley	Le capitaine des dragons
	Milena Vukotic	L'infirmière
	Monica Vitti	Mme Foucaud
	Jenny Astruc	La femme du professeur
	Pascale Audret	Mme Legendre
	Ellen Bahl	Françoise / la nurse des Legendre
	Philippe Brigaud	Le satyre
	Philippe Brizard	Le barman
	Agnès Capri	La directrice d'école
	Jean Champion	Le premier médecin
	Jacques Debary	Le président du tribunal
	Anne-Marie Deschodt	Edith Rosenblum
	Jean-Michel Dhermay	L'officier français

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Director	Luis Bunuel
Writer	Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere
Producer	Ulrich Picard, 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 Phantom of Liberty
Luis Buñuel’s vision of the inherent absurdity of human social rituals reaches its taboo-annihilating extreme in what may be his most morally subversive and formally audacious work. Zigzagging across time and space, from the Napoleonic era to the present day, The Phantom of Liberty unfolds as a picaresque, its characters traveling between tableaux in a series of Dadaist non sequiturs. Unbound by the laws of narrative logic, Buñuel lets his surrealist’s id run riot in an exuberant revolt against bourgeois rationality that seems telegraphed directly from his unconscious to the screen.


BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
Analysis of the film from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans
Episode of the French television series Pour le cinéma from 1974 featuring actors Michel Piccoli and Jean-Claude Brialy
Episode of the French television program Le dernier des cinq from 1974 featuring Brialy
Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Luis Buñuel on five of the director’s final seven films
Trailer
New English subtitle translation

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