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You can watch The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) for free on Kanopy.

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

Will this group of socialites ever actually sit down to eat, or will the absurdity of their existence keep them perpetually hungry? Luis Buñuel turns a simple dinner party into a surrealist fever dream where logic dissolves into a series of bizarre, dreamlike interruptions.

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