35mm print! Following the success of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière collaborated on another satirical comedy as co-writers, which became Buñuel’s penultimate cinematic work as director. Starring such greats as Julien Bertheau, Monica Vitti, and Jean-Claude Brialy, to name a few, this surrealist masterpiece comprises nonlinear episodes moving from the early 1800s during Napoleon’s colonial occupation in Spain and monks gambling while drinking and smoking to an upper-class gathering with guests seated on toilet seats. A scent of absurdity permeates the air of these episodes despite the naive earnestness of the characters.

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