The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Timing: 1:41 (101 min)
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Budget
$800 000
Revenue
$214 739
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Director
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Producer
Operator
Edmond Richard
Composer
Artist
Pierre Guffroy, Albert Rajau
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Editing
Hélène Plemiannikov
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

  • Luis Buñuel is credited with creating the sound effects, despite being almost completely deaf at the time.
  • When Don Rafael Acosta tells Florence about his birthday, he states Luis Buñuel's birthdate – February 22nd.
  • One of Luis Buñuel's signature trademarks is insects. In this film, during a torture scene in prison, cockroaches appear from the piano.
  • Luis Buñuel is credited as the sound effects creator, despite the fact that he was almost completely deaf by that time.
  • One of Luis Buñuel's signature trademarks is the use of insects. In this film, cockroaches emerge from a piano during a prison torture scene.

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