The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie French Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie is a 1972 surrealist film directed by Luis Buuel and written by JeanClaude Carrire in collaboration with the director. The film was made in France and is mainly in French, with some dialogue in Spanish.
The film consists of several thematically linked scenes five gatherings of a group of bourgeois friends, and the four dreams of different characters. The beginning of the film focuses on the gatherings, while the latter part focuses on the dreams, but both types of scenes are intertwined. There are also scenes involving other characters, such as two involving a Latin American female terrorist from the fictitious Republic of Miranda. The films world is not logical the bizarre events are accepted by the characters, even if they are impossible or contradictory.The film begins with a bourgeois couple, the Thvenots Frankeur and Seyrig, accompanying M. Thvenots colleague Rafael Acosta Rey and Mme. Thvenots sister Florence Ogier, to the house of the Snchals, the hosts of a dinner party. Once they arrive, Alice Snchal Audran is surprised to see them and explains that she expected them the following evening and has no dinner prepared. The wouldbe guests invite Mme Snchal to join them for dinner at a nearby inn. Finally arriving at the inn, the party find it locked. They knock and are invited in, despite the waitress seeming reluctance and an ominous mention of new management. Inside, there are no diners despite disconcertingly cheap prices and the sound of wailing voices from an adjoining room. It is learned that the manager died a few hours earlier and his former employees are holding vigil over his corpse, awaiting the coroner. The party hurriedly leave. ........
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