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15/09/1972 Comedy 1h 41m
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Overview

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.

  1. Luis Buñuel

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Fernando Rey

    Don Rafael

  2. Delphine Seyrig

    Simone Thévenot

  3. Paul Frankeur

    François Thévenot

  4. Stéphane Audran

    Alice Sénéchal

  5. Bulle Ogier

    Florence

  6. Jean-Pierre Cassel

    Henri Sénéchal

  7. Julien Bertheau

    Monsignor Dufour

  8. Claude Piéplu

    Colonel

  9. Michel Piccoli

    Interior Minister

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Reviews

A review by talisencrw
Written by talisencrw on 2016-08-15
This came in the outstanding 10-DVD boxed set 'Rialto Pictures: 10 Years', one of the finest things I've bought from The Criterion Collection (and a great deal too, one I'd heartily endorse).

I had to wait an entire day, after watching the dreadful 'Disaster Movie', to get the acrid taste out of my mouth to watch this one, by my fourth favourite director ever ('Viridiana' is still probably my favourite of his, though). Luckily it had three of my favourite French actors from the period, in Bulle Ogier (just check out 'Maitresse' if you don't understand why), Delphine Seyrig and Fernando Rey ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$800,000.00

Revenue
$103,230.00

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