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Summary: Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment. (imdb)
A frequently hilarious, sometimes savage surrealist fable which makes all its points beautifully and then goes on 20 minutes too long. The performances are a joy.
The idea that this movie could be a sitcom (if some of the cruder elements were removed) is highly amusing to me. The solipsism is mind numbing.. it's sort of like No Exit but the individuals are willful participants or occupants in their realities, and that makes all the satire so much more maddening for the viewer.
What can I say¡ Just Buñuel at his funniest best! It's just such an irreverent and charming movie. Surreal but not hermetic nor pretentious, it's one of his most accesible works. Delicious from beggining to end. Highly recommended. Even though he made even better films! What a genius Buñuel was!
Seamlessly flows from one WTF moment to the next leaving you with a world of subtle mindfuck accompanied by some pretty decent dark humor. Most of it was smirky for me but I had a couple genuine laughs. I did like the part when the military was fighting a war outside their dinner party. And the state of constant using and abusing accompanied by paranoia was spot on. Still, I don't see what the big fuss is about. I see people like this everyday. Maybe it's hard to spot the forest from the trees.
Chop it up and turn it into a series of SNL sketches, I'll like it a lot (and no, this is not dark humor, it is not subtle irony and it's very, very, very dated).
Sharply - but at the same time vaguely - funny in its delightfully attentive and unequalled look at a few individuals' mental and physical reality (with main focus clearly on the former).
Watching Bunuel's wicked, surreal assault on the upper class made me feel like I needed to do some outside reading to keep up. Bunuel takes dead aim at the hypocrisy and judgmental nature of his characters, showing how their zealotry over stature controls all. It's an odd, devilish beast and a complex, questing work. It may not fully warm my heart, but I can readily see it as a piece of cinematic art capable of launching a thousand film classes.
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