Discreet Charm of Bourgeoisie Director: Luis Buñuel
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- DVD Release Date: 12/05/2000
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- Sales Rank: 5,009
Features
Disc one: New widescreen high-definition transfer of the film; The Survivor on the Street of Providence, a short documentary on Buñuel from 1970 by Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo; Buñuel's recipe for the perfect martini; original theatrical trailer; New, improved, and enhanced English subtitles
Disc two: A Proposito de Buñuel, a documentary feature by Jose Luis López and Javier Rioyo, based on Buñuel's autobiography, My Last Sigh; Buñuel filmography
Scene Index
Side #1
0. Side #1
0. Chapters
1. Opening Credits [:10]
2. A slight misunderstanding [:17]
3. The Ambassador of Miranda [1:36]
4. The guests can wait [:39]
5. The worker-bishop (a union employee) [6:58]
6. Cafe Sans Beverage [4:29]
7. Getting to know the lieutenant [3:25]
8. "It's your husband." [4:31]
9. "Forewarned is forearmed." [4:58]
10. A most unusual dream [1:56]
11. Stage fright [2:55]
12. The truth about Miranda [2:37]
13. The journey continues [3:47]
14. Forgive me father [4:50]
15. House arrest [:26]
16. Bloody Sergeant's Day [4:18]
17. "Release the prisoners." [3:45]
18. Dinner is served [8:09]
19. The ambassador's nightmare [1:05]
20. Onward [5:59]
21. End Credits [6:26]
Side #2
0. Chapters
1. Opening credits [2:28]
2. Beginnings [2:23]
3. Calanda [2:18]
4. The Bunuel household [1:29]
5. Discovering cinema [1:24]
6. Head of the family [1:51]
7. Early influences [:12]
8. Shenanigans [3:43]
9. Un Chien Andalou [3:58]
10. Surrealism [3:04]
11. L'age D'or [2:09]
12. Las Hurdes [3:14]
13. Jeanne [1:27]
14. Fascist threat [1:17]
15. New York [1:59]
16. Blacklisted [:26]
17. The Mexican films [1:15]
18. Los Olvidados [1:33]
19. Rebellion against the church [2:35]
20. "Thank God I'm an atheist." [4:39]
21. Simon Of The Desert [1:33]
22. "Dirty old man." [1:22]
23. "Theirs was a great love." [:14]
24. Rehearsal For A Crime [4:14]
25. Viridiana [3:08]
26. Another side of Bunuel [1:07]
27. The Exterminating Angel [3:35]
28. The importance of drink [1:08]
29. Tristana [1:55]
30. The perverse child [2:56]
31. Bunuel the director [1:51]
32. On actors [2:50]
33. That Obscure Object Of Desire [2:25]
34. A jokester [1:27]
35. Last sigh [4:23]
36. End Credits [2:45]
Editorial Reviews
Make sure you've eaten before you see The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, or you're likely to end up as frustrated as the film's protagonists, who sit down at a seemingly endless succession of rather appetizing and vividly described lunches and dinners, but somehow never manage to get a bite in edgewise. There's actually not much more of a plot than that to Luis Buñuel's French-language masterpiece, just a Latin American ambassador (Fernando Rey) and his drug-dealing associates (Jean-Pierre Cassel and Paul Frankeur), two of the men's wives (Delphine Seyrig and Stephane Audran), one wife's sister (Bulle Ogier), and many, many meals that go uneaten because of mistaken dates, dead restaurant managers, police raids, and even military maneuvers. It's hard to keep track of what's real and what's a dream here, but the satire of upper-middle-class manners and mores is brilliant and devastating, and the wall-to-wall politeness is enough to make your skin crawl. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film and it was well deserved: this classic film is original, sophisticated, hilarious, and utterly Buñuel. Gregory Baird, Barnes & Noble
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