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Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Bunuel's surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at the 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 non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Bunuel throughout his career--from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
"One of Bunuel's most audacious masterstrokes." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"All that is most marvelous and poetic in surrealism...brilliant, anarchic, hugely funny!" The New York Times
Editor's Note
A dreamlike, surrealistic film that playfully looks at politics, religion and sex.|The film offers tantalizing fragments of narrative that it explores briefly and then leaves behind: a child accepts some strange photographs from an unsavory character in a playground -- only the images aren't quite what one would expect; a nurse spends the night at an inn and meets some very bizarre priests; a sniper ascends a glistening new French skyscraper and shoots at the crowds below, only to become a celebrity, not a pariah; and tearful parents beg the police to find their missing child -- who's beside them the whole time insisting she's not lost. Bunuel attacks society's false pretensions to freedom, and its distorted ideas of liberty and religion in this crazy, off- beat comedy that goes from high wit to groundling guffaws.
| Features | Audio: French Dolby Digital Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English | | Theatrical Trailers |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Home Vision/Public Media |
| Release Date: 5/24/2005 |
| Running Time: 104 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1974 | | Catalog ID: 020 | | UPC: 00037429207628 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: French | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"...This typically mischievous late-Bunuel pic boasts one of his most celebrated sequences..." 07/01/2001 p.64Premiere
"[I]t's absurdly hilarious, stingingly satirical, and sometimes surprisingly upsetting in its surreality." 07/01/2005 p.131 Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
The Phantom of Liberty is a tour de force, a triumph by a director confronting almost impossi - Roger Ebert
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