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The Phantom of Liberty
Le Fantôme de la liberté
Directed by Luis Buñuel
1974•1h 44m•R•★ 7.5
Comedy
Synopsis
A brilliant, free-associative relay race of surrealist episodes demolishing bourgeois morality and social conventions: guests seated on toilets around a dining table casually conversing while retiring to small locked cubicles to eat food in private, parents filing missing persons reports for their schoolgirl daughter who is standing right beside them, and a sniper shooting pedestrians from a Paris skyscraper praised at his trial. Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière's anarchic satirical summit.
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DirectorLuis Buñuel
WriterLuis BuñuelJean-Claude Carrière
CinematographyEdmond Richard
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Runtime1h 44m (104 mins)
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DirectorLuis Buñuel
LanguagesFrench
CountryFR, IT
StudioGreenwich Film Production
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