Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantome de la liberte)

This is just how French people live on a daily basis (complimentary).

silntstrm

[99] Saw this many years ago and loved it, though never really considered it might be one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. (Indeed, it is.) Buñuel extends his surrealist poke-funnery beyond just the bourgeoisie and the religious—though they’re certainly targeted,…

Tony (tectactoe)

It's amazing that Bunuel was able to remain this youthful and creative into his 70s. His films from this era are some of the most creative and bizarre of his career yet what keeps them entertaining is the constant subversion of your expectations. His concepts wouldn't…

Ethan Colburn

Catching Up with Buñuel For me—so far, at least—Buñuel's funniest Žižek made the most salient point about this in his Pervert's Guides: it's all about ideology. The movie is funny because it imagines a world where everything is exactly the same, but the ideology has…

ScreeningNotes

This one didn’t really work for me…

Xfaxe

RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI ACTION! - LUIS BUNUEL: BETWEEN SOCIAL REALISM AND SURREALISM Less Discreet Charm and more The Milky Way in its construction, the film abandons a traditional narrative in favor of a series of loosely connected sketches that poke fun at a wide range…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Oh Buñuel you silly goose you

JB

Ostriches, moral relativity, iconoclasms, chance vs. necessity—what does it all mean? Buñuel, in my opinion, had this incredible ability to reveal the most outré notions and behaviors humans exhibit through what appear to be meaningless sequences of events, but are actually…

Jerry

At this point in his storied career, Buñuel was just having fun and you can’t help but love it. Poking holes in the bourgeois conventions—the ‘social injustices’ as he called them—that keep us feeling repressed and are, at the end of the day, silly and meaningless, as the…

Jerry