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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) Rank 3 Reviews

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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Time Out (--)Time Out (--)
Delightful if overrated comedy from Buñuel, flitting about from frustrating situation to frustrating situation as six characters in search of a meal never manage actually to eat it. Are they prevented by their own ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Time Out (--)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.25 out of 4 stars for Philadelphia City Paper (Sam Adams)Philadelphia City Paper (Sam Adams)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
One of Luis Bunuel's greatest and funniest films, and the winner of a Best Foreign Film Oscar, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a brilliant surrealistic joke about a group of friends whose attempts to dine are continually thwarted. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (--)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
...captivating, filled with a myriad of small, humorous, wicked touches that continually please. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.20 out of 4 stars for ToxicUniverse.com (John A. Nesbit)ToxicUniverse.com (John A. Nesbit)
retains elements of surrealism while remaining one of the more accessible and playful of his films. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (John A. Nesbit)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Rest assured, this film is one long joke on the audience, and anyone who watches it with the notion that he might understand it completely is either ponderously full of himself or sadly mistaken. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for CineScene.com (Ed Owens)CineScene.com (Ed Owens)
Buñuel has fun toying with, and subverting, narrative conventions - interrupting the film with minor characters telling their dreams or life stories, presenting sequences that end with a character waking up and realizing that it was all a dream, only to ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at CineScene.com (Ed Owens)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
Bunuel was notoriously economical in his work habits: Retakes were rare, and actors got a minimum of direction with no psychological discussion. And yet, Carriere remembers, speaking from his home in Paris, ``working with Bunuel was a joy. ``He put no ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Edward Guthmann)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Kino.Lounge (FilmWolf)Kino.Lounge (FilmWolf)
Zur Enstehung von "Der diskrete Charme der Bourgeoisie (DCB)" schreibt Bunuel in "Mein letzter Seufzer": "Wir suchten nach einem Vorwand für eine sich wiederholende Handlung, als [Produzent] Silbermann uns etwas erzählte, was ihm passiert war. Er ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Kino.Lounge (FilmWolf)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Miradas desde el Sur (Leonel Delgado Aburto)Miradas desde el Sur (Leonel Delgado Aburto)
Casi 30 años después El discreto encanto de la burguesía (Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, 1972) aparece sabrosamente atrapada en su época. Quizá de la trilogía que forma con El fantasma de la libertad (1974) y Ese obscuro objeto del deseo ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Miradas desde el Sur (Leonel Delgado Aburto)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Strictly Film School (Acquarello)Strictly Film School (Acquarello)
Luis Buñuel creates an absurdly comic and wickedly incisive portrait of the meaningless social rituals and polite hypocrisy of the upper middle class in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. By interweaving exaggerated reality with lucid dream ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Strictly Film School (Acquarello)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Deseret News, Salt Lake City (--)Deseret News, Salt Lake City (--)
Nearly 30 years after its original release, director Luis Bunuel's fantasy/satire The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie has lost none of its charm and mirth. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (--)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
Although it doesn't hold up as much as you'd like it to, I liked its sense of scattered independence. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
It remains a classic of surrealism, packed with disturbing images and sly (some would say 'perverse') humor. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for PopMatters (Jonathan Beebe)PopMatters (Jonathan Beebe)
The essential desire to 'change life and the world' is still there for you to see in Dali's painting and Buñuel's film. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at PopMatters (Jonathan Beebe)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
Much has been written about this film as a debonair surrealist jape, and Buñuel himself commented at the time, "I now say with humor what I used to say with violence." But take a look again at its dream sequences, especially the nocturnal one involving ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for New York Times (A.O. Scott)New York Times (A.O. Scott)
It combines a masterful command of the medium with a mischievous, anarchic sense of imaginative freedom. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 3.00 out of 4 stars for Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 2.80 out of 4 stars for Village Voice (J. Hoberman)Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
The cinematic radicalism and social satire of the original surrealists became diluted quickly. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Harvey's Movie Review (Harvey O'Brien)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 2.75 out of 4 stars for Bright Lights Film Journal (--)Bright Lights Film Journal (--)
Despite his godlike status as one of cinema’s great artists and rebels, Luis Buñuel has only recently arrived on DVD. Criterion has just released two of his features, one in the middle ground of his achievement (Diary of a Chambermaid), the other an ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Bright Lights Film Journal (--)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 2.68 out of 4 stars for Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
It seems pompous and scattershot now -- a tweaking of privileged European smugness that unfolds with a playful daisy-chain logic but has the tone of a quaint, doddering lecture. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) scores a combined 2.50 out of 4 stars for Images (Gary Mark Morris)Images (Gary Mark Morris)
Leisurely subplots rip the veil – never exactly secure – from this allegedly respectable group. Like the other characters, the Senechals wander in a haze of self-absorption, so much so that they can’t even observe the simplest rituals of their ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Images (Gary Mark Morris)
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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) is ranked overall as  out of 4 stars
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