35mm print (color, sound) 101 min. France/Italy/Spain. Rialto Pictures
"When Buñuel accepted the 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, he did so, appropriately enough, in disguise. Discreet Charm itself is a masquerade, this time of a satire. In her review for The New Yorker, Pauline Kael described the film as "a cosmic vaudeville show - an Old Master's mischief. Now seventy-two, Luis Buñuel is no longer savage about the hypocrisy and inanity of the privileged classes. They don't change, and since they have become a persistent bad joke to him, he has grown almost fond of their follies." (From "Luis Bunuel Centenery" press release)
Screened as a part of Buñuel's retrospective in 2000.
"When Buñuel accepted the 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, he did so, appropriately enough, in disguise. Discreet Charm itself is a masquerade, this time of a satire. In her review for The New Yorker, Pauline Kael described the film as "a cosmic vaudeville show - an Old Master's mischief. Now seventy-two, Luis Buñuel is no longer savage about the hypocrisy and inanity of the privileged classes. They don't change, and since they have become a persistent bad joke to him, he has grown almost fond of their follies." (From "Luis Bunuel Centenery" press release)
Screened as a part of Buñuel's retrospective in 2000.
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