This Oscar-winning film from absurdist auteur Luis Buñuel takes aim at French high society as an elegant dinner party slips down a series of surreal rabbit holes.
With a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, Luis Buñuel mercilessly mocked the idea of normalcy in this episodic mélange of audacious set-pieces: police investigate the disappearance of a non-missing child, monks gamble with holy relics, murder is celebrated, the military is called in to deal with a fox, and a now-infamous “dinner” party takes “toilet humor” to a whole new level. One of the director’s most outrageous surrealist fantasias.
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RUNNING TIME
104min
VENUE
FORMAT
35mm
LANGUAGE
In French with English subtitles
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