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.
Top Billed Cast
Fernando Rey
Don Rafael
Delphine Seyrig
Simone Thévenot
Paul Frankeur
François Thévenot
Stéphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal
Bulle Ogier
Florence
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Henri Sénéchal
Julien Bertheau
Monsignor Dufour
Claude Piéplu
Colonel
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
T talisencrwVerified TMDB Critic
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 ...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2022-09-19
It's quite a difficult film to review this, as it essentially has no real plot and very little structure. It is a series of dream sequences following a group of friends - each with some form of skeleton in their closet - as they try to meet for a dinner that repeatedly gets aborted. Fernando Rey is on good form as the Ambassador from the Republic of "Miranda" - a man living in fear for his life from revolutionaries at home, and who is also not averse to adding a little spice to the contents of the diplomatic bag. Jean-Pierre Cassel and Stéphane Audran are the "Sénéchal" couple - they like a...
