Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a wickedly funny and surreal satire of middle-class pretensions and social ritual. The film follows a group of affluent friends whose repeated attempts to share a meal are continually derailed by increasingly absurd and dreamlike interruptions. As reality dissolves into fantasy, Buñuel exposes the emptiness beneath their polished manners and self-satisfied civility. With sharp wit and anarchic humor, the film offers a scathing critique of class, conformity, and the illusions that sustain bourgeois life, securing its place as one of Buñuel’s most enduring masterpieces.
