Cinema Surreal
Paris is the birthplace of Surrealism. However, Luis Buñuel was to become one of the most important directors of Surrealist cinema.
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Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie
In 1929, he co-directed "An Andalusian Dog" with Salvador Dalí, and from then on he worked with unflagging energy as a director of Surrealism until 1977. Luis Buñuel died in 1983 at the age of 83. He had directed over 34 films.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is one of his last films. Six self-centered representatives of the bourgeoisie attempt to meet for a dinner together, but their plan is constantly thwarted by events as absurd as they are. Sometimes the guests arrive on the wrong day; sometimes the hosts are having sex with each other, whereupon the other guests, after waiting in vain for 20 minutes, leave at a loss; sometimes the host rather casually shoots a person. It is a monument to Buñuel’s mockery of the decadent, amoral bourgeoisie, developed in a purely surrealist film style, culminating in a scene where one protagonist dreams that another protagonist has dreamed something… and wakes up.
- Luis Buñuel, F, I, SP 1972, 102’, DF
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June 2026
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