The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

1972-09-151h 41m

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.

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