Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Smoreni Zmaj A film that's so boring that I barely made it through the end, and yet so hypnotizingly well made that I could not make myself shut it off before the end. Very difficult to watch, and even more difficult to evaluate.5/10

Isaiah Collins "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", without question is my most favorite movie of all time. There really has never been a movie until this one, that I would consider flawless. I normally find flaws, and I bet there is a few in there, but whatever they were, it didn't bug me at all. People might not like this film, because it makes you think for yourself, it makes you question what just happened, and it is just crazy bizarre in every way.Luis Buñuel is incredible. I never thought after watching one film from a specific director, that I would find my favorite director. His shots in this film are very unique. He uses a different style than the way most do. If I'm not mistaken I think at most he uses two cameras for this film. But most of his shots work with panning, so he is incredible with manipulating the camera to get everything he needs almost in one shot on one camera. If you have not heard of this film, or you just overlooked this film, rethink and see this movie.The first time I have ever given a *10* rating, and might be the only time.

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').

quinimdb "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" is a satire of the aristocratic (or bourgeoisie) class told in a series of (occasionally) surreal vignettes. The main takeaway of this film is that, despite the luxurious surface and their obsession with the proper etiquette, the members of the bourgeoisie class are just as bad as the people they chastise.The characters in this film think of people in terms of rich and poor, and, in their eyes, the poor are thieves and the rich are noble. For instance in the introduction of the priest character, he comes to the characters mansion to apply for a gardening job, and he just goes right out to the gardening she'd and gets in gardening clothes, so when he comes back and they see him, they immediately kick him out because he seems like a poor man. But when he walks back in soon after wearing his priest robes, they start kissing his hands.The characters themselves in the film are drug dealers, yet when it is brought up that some of the soldiers smoke marijuana, they begin to talk about how much they hate drug addicts. One of the characters is the ambassador of Miranda and in one scene murders an army general for accusing Miranda of having many murders. Later he also sympathizes with a Nazi simply because he was from Miranda and the ambassador had met him. The film is filled with moments like these, for instance: A woman complains about a meal not being expensive enough; the priest goes against all his values of forgiveness and kills a man, practically for no reason considering he was dieing anyway; a man tries to have sex with a woman who tried to kill him, and then arranges her kidnapping because she doesn't, proving himself just as bad, if not worse, than her, etc...But perhaps the most genius example of this (and the most well known) is the moment where the group of rich characters finds themselves on a stale in front of an audience. There is a man feeding them lines. One character almost gets out one line, and then nervously walks backstage, and the rest of the characters follow. Well, all but one, who starts sweating and says "I forgot my lines...". Then he wakes up. This scene exposes them for what they are. The big house, the fancy furniture, and the etiquette are all just for show. They are just an act, a disguise, to hide the kind of people that they really are.