"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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