Directed by:
Luis BuñuelCinematography:
Edmond RichardCast:
Adriana Asti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic (more)Plots(1)
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel's surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. Featuring an elegant soirée with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of nonsequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career-from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Adriana Asti
Italy
Best movies:
The Best of Youth (2003) (series)
Una breve vacanza (1973)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Jean-Claude Brialy
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Holy Year (1976)
Adolfo Celi
Italy
Best movies:
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Grand Prix (1966)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
Paul Frankeur
France
Best movies:
Marie-October (1959)
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Michael Lonsdale
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Michel Piccoli
France
Best movies:
Un amour de pluie (1974)
Milou in May (1990)
Mado (1976)
Claude Piéplu
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
I'm Losing My Temper (1974)
Jean Rochefort
France
Best movies:
My Mother's Castle (1990)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
I Sent a Letter to My Love (1980)
Bernard Verley
France
Best movies:
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Le Rouge et le noir (1997) (TV movie)
Love in the Afternoon (1972)
Milena Vukotic
Italy
Best movies:
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Nostalgia (1983)
All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
Monica Vitti
Italy
Best movies:
Teresa la ladra (1972)
Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970)
La Notte (1961)
Pascale Audret
France
Best movies:
The Carmelites (1960)
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Marie-France Pisier
Vietnam
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Orane Demazis
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
Luis Buñuel
Spain
Best movies:
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Weeping for a Bandit (1964)
Didier Flamand
France
Best movies:
Animal (1977)
Wings of Desire (1987)
The Chorus (2004)
Hélène Perdrière
France
Best movies:
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Race for Life (1955)
Julien Bertheau
Algeria
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1954)
The Verdict (1974)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
François Maistre
France
Best movies:
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Belle de Jour (1967)
Jacques Debary
France
Best movies:
Pavlova: A Woman for All Time (1983)
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)