The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The new 50th anniversary 4K restoration of Luis Buñuel's THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE (1972) opens July 29 at Laemmle's Royal, Claremont, Glendale and Town Center. The 1973 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film and 1974 BAFTA Award winner for Best Actress and Best Screenplay, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE is one of surrealist master Buñuel's late career triumphs, now fully restored and ready to meet a new audience craving the director's particular flair for the anarchic skewering of ruling elites.

An ambassador and his bourgeois pals try to dine together again and again as circumstances, carnal and otherwise, intervene. Starring major French actors and Buñuel stalwarts Fernando Rey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Stéphane Audran, Paul Frankeur, and Delphine Seyrig, with a screenplay written by Buñuel and long-time collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière (Diary of a Chambermaid, La Piscine), THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE brims with humorous satire and incisive criticism expressed in ways that can only be described as "Buñuelian."

"FRIGHTENING, FUNNY, PROFOUND, AND MYSTERIOUS." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

"EXTRAORDINARILY FUNNY AND PERFECTLY ACTED" — Vincent Canby, The New York Times

The 4K restoration was produced by Studiocanal in 2022, with the support of the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée). Restoration work was carried out by L'Image Retrouvée laboratory, using elements held in the French Film Archives.

Awards and Nominations:
Best Foreign Film (Academy Awards, 1973)
Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material not Previously Published or Produced nomination (Academy Awards, 1973)
Best Actress - Stéphane Audran (BAFTA Awards, 1974)
Best Screenplay (BAFTA Awards, 1974)
Best Direction, Best Film, Best Soundtrack nominations (BAFTA Awards, 1974)
Best Foreign-Language Film nomination (Golden Globes, 1973)
Best Director (National Society of Film Critics Awards, 1972)
Best Film (National Society of Film Critics Awards, 1972)