The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie poster
Director Luis Buñuel
Screenplay Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Comedy1972

Original Title: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie

Release Date: 1972-09-15

Duration: 101 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Stéphane Audran
    Alice Sénéchal
  • Delphine Seyrig
    Mme Thevenot
  • Jean-Pierre Cassel
    M. Sénéchal
  • Fernando Rey
    Don Rafael
  • Michel Piccoli
    Le Ministre
  • Bulle Ogier
    Florence
  • Ellen Bahl
    (uncredited)
  • Jacques Rispal
    Un gendarme
  • Anne-Marie Deschodt
    (uncredited)
  • Milena Vukotić
    Ines