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...DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE Directed by LUIS BUUEL Screenplay by LUIS BUNUEL and JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIERS
...Exterminating Angel, Luis Bunuel, master of perverse magic and weaver of surreal spells, conjured up a dinner party that no one could leave. The guests were prisoners, not of the hosts or even of the house itself, but of each other, trapped by their own free will-victims, finally, of their own fantasies. It was a furious, scalding film, one of Bunuel's darkest and most unsparing...
...Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Paul Frankeur) sit down to a series of meals that are in some way either interrupted or totally disrupted. The movie is a skein of the guests' separate fantasies, each one originating with the recurring comic nightmare of a disastrous dinner. Bunuel, as if working an artful parlor trick, sometimes pulls one dream from inside another like a series of splendid silks...
...Each episode of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is consistently amusing and often hilariously shrewd. The film is a miniature Decameron woven together by a shot-repeated several times-of the six characters walking briskly along a country road. They are pilgrims in a bucolic purgatory, condemned by Bunuel for their militant mediocrity...
...makes any kind of sense except comic sense. Ebulliently acted, beautifully scored (by Jack Nitzsche), memorably photographed on location in New Mexico, Greaser's Palace has an unrestrained, nutball appeal that is also, finally, its undoing. Downey always goes for a laugh instead of a point. Unlike Luis Bunuel, who also deals in curiously reverential blasphemies, Downey lacks the ruthless, rigorous intellect that gives depth to such flights of fantasy. "Jay Cocks...