The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Overview

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.

Details

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

Pierre Maguelon

Police Sergeant

Maxence Mailfort

Sergeant Recounting Dream

Milena Vukotić

Ines

Maria Gabriella Maione

Guerrilla

Muni

Peasant

Georges Douking

Gardener

Christian Baltauss

Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin

Bernard Musson

Waiter

Jacques Rispal

Gendarme

Robert Le Béal

Couturier