France/1972—directed by Luis Buñuel | 102 min. 

Six well-to-do, sophisticated friends gather regularly to enjoy their privileged trappings of conspicuous consumption—barely giving a thought to the varying degrees of amoral behavior they casually live by daily. Without warning, their untroubled sense of security is intruded upon by a series of frustrating coincidences, plausible at first but then increasingly hilarious; no matter how well-planned their dinner parties, these folks just can’t seem to complete a meal.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, one of the indisputable masterpieces of the cinema’s wittiest surrealist, we’re delighted to present this new 4K restoration that confirms it's as astute and laugh-out-loud funny as it was half a century ago—perhaps even more so. With Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran, and the great Fernando Rey. In French with English subtitles.  

“Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match... It’s mildly amazing that this movie won an Oscar. Typically, the filmmaker told a credulous journalist that his producers had bribed the Academy.” –J. Hoberman, The Village Voice