The Phantom of Liberty
(1974)
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The Phantom of Liberty
(1974)
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Adriana Asti | ... |
La dame en noir et la soeur du premier préfet /
Prefect's Sister
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Julien Bertheau | ... |
Le premier préfet de police /
First Prefect
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| Jean-Claude Brialy | ... |
Foucauld /
Mr. Foucauld
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| Adolfo Celi | ... |
Le docteur de Legendre /
Doctor Pasolini
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Paul Frankeur | ... |
L'aubergiste /
Innkeeper
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| Michael Lonsdale | ... |
Le chapelier /
Hatter
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Pierre Maguelon | ... |
Gérard, le gendarme /
Policeman
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François Maistre | ... |
Le professeur des gendarmes /
Professor
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Hélène Perdrière | ... |
La vieille tante /
Aunt
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| Michel Piccoli | ... |
Le second préfet de police /
Second Prefect
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Claude Piéplu | ... |
Le commissaire de police /
Commissioner
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| Jean Rochefort | ... |
Legendre /
Mr. Legendre
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Bernard Verley | ... |
Le capitaine des dragons /
Judge
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Milena Vukotic | ... |
L'infirmière /
Nurse
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| Monica Vitti | ... |
Mme Foucaud /
Mrs. Foucauld
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One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on lavatories round a dinner table on, occasionally retiring to a little room to eat. Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
One of Buñuel's greatest films. Scene after scene arguments are used as beautiful excuses to subvert reality and attack established and hypocritical institutions with acute humor and surrealist means. If you have a taste for surrealism and absurd humor (i.e. Monty Python, Marx Bros., etc.) this movie cannot be recommended enough.
One small correction: the sniper is not sentenced to death but to capital punishment which results in something altogether different from death (and far more sarcastic).