Luis Buñuel

  • Luis Buñuel – Le Fantôme de la liberté aka The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseExperimentalItalyLuis Buñuel

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    Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.Read More »

  • Luis Buñuel – El Angel Exterminador aka The Exterminating Angel [+Extras] (1962)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaLuis BuñuelMexico

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    Plot Outline :

    A group of people in formal dress arrives at an elegantly appointed home for a dinner party. However, once dinner is over and the guests retire to the drawing room, they discover that the servants have gone away, and for some reason they cannot leave. There is no explanation why — there are no locked doors or barred windows preventing them from going home – but the guests are convinced that they’re stranded. Left to their own devices, they slowly but gradually degenerate into genteel savagery.Read More »

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