Il fantasma della libertà
France / Italy,
1974, 104 min
(Alternative: 100 min)
Directed by:
Luis BuñuelCinematography:
Edmond RichardCast:
Adriana Asti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic (more)Plots(1)
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel's surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. Featuring an elegant soirée with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of nonsequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career-from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements. (Criterion)
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