The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Synopsis

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.

Cast

Fernando Rey

Don Rafael

Delphine Seyrig

Simone Thévenot

Paul Frankeur

François Thévenot

Stéphane Audran

Alice Sénéchal

Bulle Ogier

Florence

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Henri Sénéchal

Julien Bertheau

Monsignor Dufour

Claude Piéplu

Colonel

Michel Piccoli

Interior Minister

François Maistre

Inspector Delecluze