Critic Reviews
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Luis Buñuel's 1972 comic masterpiece, about three well-to-do couples who try and fail to have a meal together, is perhaps the most perfectly achieved and executed of all his late French films.
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Variety Staff, Variety
Luis Bunuel adds another fine film to his solid record with this surrealistically oriented tale of so-called bourgeois types.
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Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
Take a look again at its dream sequences, especially the nocturnal one involving the young man in the side street, and you will see a master disturber still at work.
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Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News
An absurdly comic assault on the meaningless social rituals and polite hypocrisies of the upper middle class.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Most of the films of Luis Bunuel are comedies in one way or another, but he doesn't go for gags and punch lines; his comedy is more like a dig in the ribs, sly and painful.
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Cast
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Fernando Reyas Ambassador Raphael Acosta -
Delphine Seyrigas Simone -
Stéphane Audranas Alice Senechal
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Jean-Pierre Casselas Senechal -
Paul Frankeuras Thevenot -
Bulle Ogieras Florence
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