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Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The (2000) Rank 4 Reviews
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Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Frightening, funny, profound, and mysterious. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Edinburgh U Film Society (Spiros Gangas)
This is another of Buñuel's witty satires of the bourgeoisie, strongly reminiscent of Viridiana, less caustic but stylistically more refined. It is a very intelligently structured film, almost flawless in terms of directorial technique but at the same ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Edinburgh U Film Society (Spiros Gangas)
iF Magazine (--)
uis Bunuel’s surrealist comedy THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) works so successfully on its own clever logic that by the end there’s no way to tell which scenes are dreams from those that are reality. What starts as a simple idea about ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at iF Magazine (--)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
In his 1972 comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie , one of cinema’s most brilliant directors made the most brilliant film of his career. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
A delicious comedy of manners, Bunuel's Oscar winner is a descendant of the audaciously surreal Golden Age and disturbingly allegorical Exterminating Angel, without the anger or scandal--a light satire of the trivial and conformist bourgeois lifestyle. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at EmanuelLevy.com (Emanuel Levy)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
A true treasure of cinema from one its masters. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
Buñuel repeatedly takes on the gross presumptuousness of his characters--their unwillingness to admit defeat and to take things only at face value. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Slant Magazine (Ed Gonzalez)
filmcritic.com (Jake Euker)
There are masterpieces scattered among Buñuel’s French films like confetti, but here one of cinema’s most brilliant directors made the most brilliant film of his career. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at filmcritic.com (Jake Euker)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Most of the films of Luis Bunuel are comedies in one way or another, but he doesn't go for gags and punch lines; his comedy is more like a dig in the ribs, sly and painful. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
eFilmCritic.com (--)
Luis Bunuel’s surrealist comedy THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) works so successfully on its own clever logic that by the end there’s no way to tell which scenes are dreams from those that are reality. What starts as a simple idea about ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at eFilmCritic.com (--)
Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Strange, wacky, funny, and tragic -- and, on an incidental personal note, Discreet Charm is the movie that made me realize I was in love with movies. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
The discreet charm of Luis Buñuel is that he kind of likes the targets of his satirical volleys, even as he mercilessly skewers their pretensions, their hypocrisies and their monstrous moral crimes. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
But though Buñuel himself is gone, his films remain to skewer [the bourgeoisie] whenever we feel the urge to see them humiliated. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
This has to be one of the most completely realized comedies ever made, and, in its odd way, one of the most civilized. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
The film's discreet charm is Buñuel's finesse. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
In the nearly 30 years since the movie was released (it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1972), one forgets how falling-about-funny is this mad caper. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
TV Guide (Frank Lovece)
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 (Frank Lovece)
San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
If there's a granddaddy of breezy situationalism, it's probably Buñuel. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
This has to be one of the most completely realized comedies ever made, and, in its odd way, one of the most civilized. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Salon.com (Charles Taylor)
Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
A satirical drama by Luis Bunuel about the absurdities of class elitism. ...read the complete Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie movie review at Spirituality and Practice (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)
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