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Starring: Luis Buñuel, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic, Bernard Verley, Jean Rochefort, Claude Piéplu, Michel Piccoli, François Maistre, Pierre Maguelon, Michael Lonsdale, Paul Frankeur, Adolfo Celi, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Bertheau, Adriana Asti. Directed by: Luis Buñuel. Polizeipräfekt), Michel Piccoli (2. Film à sketches insolites et farfelus ponctués par des scènes de répression où l’on entend le cri “A bas la liberté”. A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style. Polizeipräfekt), Adriana Asti (Dame in Schwarz)

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A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants. Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together. «In locker verbundenen Episoden, die miteinander keinerlei durchgängige Handlung mehr aufbauen, denunziert Buñuel die Freiheit als ‹Gespenst›, als Schimäre in einer Gesellschaft, die vor der Freiheit Angst zu haben und zu ihr nicht fähig zu sein scheint.
The Phantom of Liberty (French: Le Fantôme de la liberté) is a 1974 surrealist comedy film by Luis Buñuel, produced by Serge Silberman and starring Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau and Jean-Claude Brialy. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages. The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society. They excuse themselves to eat food in private.

Le Fantôme de la liberté - (1974) Luis Buñuel. Films)Nüschelerstrasse 11, 8001 Zürich, Kinokasse 044 415 33 66Bernard Verley (Dragoner-Hauptmann), Jean-Claude Brialy (M. Foucauld), Monica Vitti (Mme Foucauld), Milena Vukotic (Krankenschwester), Michael Lonsdale (Hutfabrikant), François Maistre (Professor), Jean Rochefort (M. Legendre), Julien Bertheau (1. Use the HTML below. Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior. Chark, an adventurer, comes to a small village near a diamond miners' camp. Série d'épisodes sans lien logique, encadrée par des scènes de répression où l'on entend en "off" le cri de "A bas la liberté". Le fantôme de la liberté. Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. As unusual, eccentric, and bizarre vignettes of mundane and seemingly innocuous conventions of our social and private lives success one another, somehow, Directed by Luis Buñuel. Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances. Le fantôme de la liberté. Although Bunuel was to make one more film,"cet obscur objet du désir" ,"phantom of liberty" would remain his testament,his last sigh ,to mention the title of his memoirs.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

Le Fantôme de la liberté - (1974) Luis Buñuel [Amazon.com] Bourgeois couples discuss defecation around a toilet-lined table but consider "food" a taboo.

The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. He is arrested by the local police who accuse him of having committed a bank robbery in a neighboring town. Related: hauntology - surrealist films - Luis Buñuel - film - phantom - 1974.