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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
"Le fantôme de la liberté" (original title)

 -  Comedy | Drama  -  27 October 1974 (USA)
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Adriana Asti ...
La dame en noir et la soeur du premier préfet / Prefect's Sister
Julien Bertheau ...
Le premier préfet de police / First Prefect
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Foucauld / Mr. Foucauld
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Le docteur de Legendre / Doctor Pasolini
Paul Frankeur ...
L'aubergiste / Innkeeper
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Le chapelier / Hatter
Pierre Maguelon ...
Gérard, le gendarme / Policeman
François Maistre ...
Le professeur des gendarmes / Professor
Hélène Perdrière ...
La vieille tante / Aunt
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Le second préfet de police / Second Prefect
Claude Piéplu ...
Le commissaire de police / Commissioner
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Legendre / Mr. Legendre
Bernard Verley ...
Le capitaine des dragons / Judge
Milena Vukotic ...
L'infirmière / Nurse
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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>

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Release Date:

27 October 1974 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

The Phantom of Liberty  »

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$6,172 (USA) (8 November 2002)

Gross:

$6,172 (USA) (8 November 2002)
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1.66 : 1
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Director's trademark: [insects] Foucauld places a large framed spider on the mantelpiece after declaring that he is "sick of symmetry" See more »

Quotes

Foucauld: I'm sick of symmetry.
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Edited into The Clock (2010) See more »

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Liberty is a phantom and Bunuel shows why
13 June 1999 | by See all my reviews

This is one the great comedies but it's not really a laugh out loud satire. The series of barely interlocking sketches really break down your senses of what you expect from movies. My favorite bits are when a little girl goes along with her parents to the police station to report that she has been missing for some time and when the military is brought into a zoo to keep the people away from the animals. The look on the face of an ostrich almost seems to be one of relief. People can read deeply into the messages of the stories or can just be taken for the fun (one might almost say hip) paradoxes of society. I think Bunuel wants to show that complete freedom is impossible because even if you are willing to detach from everybody and everything, you still have your own inner-nature to answer to. **** out of ****


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