The Phantom of Liberty
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel's surrealist gem "The Phantom of Liberty". Featuring an elegant soiree 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 non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career - from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
Year: 1974
Genre: Comedy, French Cinema, Avant-garde / Experimental, Black Humour
Country: France
Director: Luis Bunuel
Starring: Adolfo Celi, Adriana Asti, Bernard Verley, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur
Duration: 104 Minutes
Rating: R18
Subtitles: Yes
8/10
Location in store: Foreign (France)
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