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.
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Film Cast:
- Don Rafael: Fernando Rey
- Mme Thevenot: Delphine Seyrig
- M. Thevenot: Paul Frankeur
- Florence: Bulle Ogier
- Alice Sénéchal: Stéphane Audran
- M. Sénéchal: Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Monseigneur Dufour: Julien Bertheau
- Le Colonel: Claude Piéplu
- Le Ministre: Michel Piccoli
- Delecluze: François Maistre
- Le sergent de police: Pierre Maguelon
- Traum-Sergeant: Maxence Mailfort
- Ines: Milena Vukotić
- Terroristin: Maria Gabriella Maione
- Bäuerin: Muni
- Gärtner: Georges Douking
- Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin: Christian Baltauss
- Serveur: Bernard Musson
- Un gendarme: Jacques Rispal
- Couturier: Robert le Béal
- (uncredited): Robert Benoît
- (uncredited): Anne-Marie Deschodt
- (uncredited): Ellen Bahl
- (uncredited): Jean-Michel Dhermay
- (uncredited): Jean Degrave
- (uncredited): Sébastien Floche
- (uncredited): Claude Jaeger
- (uncredited): Pierre Lary
- (uncredited): Alix Mahieux
- (uncredited): Robert Party
- (uncredited): Amparo Soler Leal
- Une cliente du salon de thé (uncredited): Madeleine Bouchez
- Le pianiste du salon de thé (uncredited): Roger Caccia
Film Crew:
- Sound Effects: Luis Buñuel
- Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carrière
- Director of Photography: Edmond Richard
- Production Design: Pierre Guffroy
- Costume Design: Jacqueline Guyot
- Sound Engineer: Guy Villette
- Editor: Hélène Plemiannikov
- Unit Manager: Jean Lara
- Producer: Serge Silberman
- Production Manager: Ulrich Picard
- Assistant Editor: Gina Pignier
- Assistant Director: Arnie Gelbart
- Makeup Artist: Odette Berroyer
- Sound Mixer: Jacques Carrère
- Assistant Director: Pierre Lary
- Assistant Production Design: Albert Rajau
- Location Manager: Pierre Lefait
- Script: Suzanne Durrenberger
- Property Master: François Suné
- Makeup Artist: Fernande Hugi
- Camera Operator: Bernard Noisette
Movie Reviews:
- talisencrw: 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 (for the two ‘French Connection’ films alone)–even though for a director of Bunuel’s strength, any actors could have sufficed. It’s the ideas that stand out most triumphantly.
It’s most known for being Bunuel’s Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film, but its OTHER nomination is what’s almost neglected when people talk about him. Yes, they talk about Bunuel the director, or (from David Thomson) Bunuel the photographer, but people never realize his two nominations for the Calanda, Spain-native were never for director, but for writing (with another nod for his swan song, ‘The Obscure Object of Desire’).