The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

"A deliciously pungent concoction that will set your spirits soaring and your mind aglow." New York Magazine

We're thrilled to be screening the release of a stunning new 4K restoration of Luis Buñuel’s multi award winning surrealist satire, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

This brilliantly satiric masterpiece - recipient of a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar® - tells the tale of six middle-class guests and their interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Brimming with delightfully absurdist sequences, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie depicts a group of friends – the Thévenots, the Sénéchals, Madame Thévenot’s younger sister Florence and Latin American ambassador Don Rafael Acosta – as they make repeated attempts to dine together, their attempts to eat continually thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined, including a ghostly apparition. While bristling and politely expressing their outrage, this upper-middle-class circle never waver in their attempts to pursue all that they desire...

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