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what a brilliant film!
Fernando Rey is his usual amusing self in this beautifully done satire. One piece of Bunuel's genius was the uncanny ability to take satire to the very razor's edge of farce...and pull slightly back, repeatedly. I can't think of any director who made such gloriously different classics, such as Los Olvidados (a searing social commentary in documentary form), Belle du Jour (an itchy middle-class housewife melodrama made fascinating by its insight and performances), Viridiana and Tristana, and the Discrete (and many others).
In this film, terrorists, diplomats, military officers and soldiers, ill-fitting clerics all conspire to ruin the planned dinners of a group of bourgeoisie. How gauche!
No one was like Bunuel, no one.
The DVD's second disc is a fascinating documentary on him. Luis had attended an academy alongside Lorca and Dali. What a class!
Bunuel, when already an old man, noted that his sexual desires had faded, but that he didn't miss them: he only wished for stronger lungs and kidneys so as to be able to drink and smoke more (he loved dry martinis, and seemed to down them regularly throughout the day; cigars also he loved).
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I always enjoy that film. The walking scenes always drive me to near orgasm, and Stéphane Audran (Claude Chabrol former wife) is quite sexy there, although she lost some of that in the later years and became the Babette of the Babette's Feast.So much has been said about the Charm it is impossible to add anything.
...that's actually a wake -- priceless!clark
have to say the scene in which Rey shoots the officer, who has just hilariously insulted him many times, is where I laughed the loudest.
Placed in context, the scene in which he groped the would-be-terrorist coed, "You are better made for love than war," is a close second.
Whimiscal hogwash with little sense or meaning. The only amusing thing was no one actually got to eat. There is no excuse for watching this film unless you happened to be wearing an out of focus monocle.
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Few filmmakers maintained such a consistently high level of quality throughout their entire careers. Ozu, Bresson, Tarkovsky, and maybe a few others did.
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