The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Luis Buñuel’s wickedly funny and surreal satire of middle-class pretensions 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 — a scathing critique of class, conformity, and the illusions that sustain bourgeois life.