buñuel's best

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Perhaps not quite as good as "Discrete Charm, but close.

"A series of vignettes, some intensely surreal or weird, some slyly amusing or full of fascinating contradictions. The camera drops subjects to follow other unconnected ones, shifting from one scene, joke, setting or dream to another."

#633

A hit and miss affair in its treatment of middle-class hypocrites, often funny, but sometimes no more than bizarre, although you keep watching, just to see what happens next.

"This heady masterwork isn't particularly easy to decipher, but it's best approached as the literal comedy of manners Buñuel intends it to be." - Ed Gonzalez

It's like watching really boring sketch comedy where all the segments only have one joke to them. Like all sketch comedy, it's very hit-or-miss, but only a very few segments here hit.

Absolutely hilarious, and bizarre. I kept being reminded of Monty Python... but this was smarter and, ultimately, funnier.

Insane - completely insane. Bunuel when he is most absurd, hilarious, surreal, is Bunuel when he is best. I mean - a dinner party where they shit instead of eating, and where referring to eating is frowned upon - insane, insane, insane. Oh, and Monica Vitti is in this, a few years older, some pounds gained(bigger guns) - but she is still the most beautiful female to grace the world of film.

This film is hella cool.

Mockery ftw.

A masterpiece. A hilariously bizarre work of surrealism. Buñuel is just brilliant.

# 702

My first Bunuel movie. I will be back for more.

I liked the unusual structure and the humor and the surrealness of it all, but at times it played like a Saturday Night Live episode. Lots of underdeveloped little skits based on simple premises. It's funny, but it's really not that funny. Also, it's got a sort of low-budget feel to it.