Le fantôme de la Liberté (1974)
(The Phantom of Liberty)
Country: FR
Technical: col 104m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, Jean Rochefort, Adolfo Celi, Claude Piéplu
Synopsis:
From the Peninsular war to the present day, man's quest for liberty has been constantly frustrated: he remains obsessed with his own mortality and drawn towards figures of death and decay.
Review:
That's my guess as to what this Pythonesque romp is about; as one sequence gives way to another and we follow a new character, expectations of what should constitute normal behaviour are subverted in typically surrealist fashion: to no one's surprise. The same goes for our expectations of how stories resolve themselves. Only children see the truth, while adults are hidebound by rites and formalities. Mounted in Buñuel's deadpan style with considerable aplomb, and unremittingly entertaining for those in on the joke.
(The Phantom of Liberty)
Country: FR
Technical: col 104m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, Jean Rochefort, Adolfo Celi, Claude Piéplu
Synopsis:
From the Peninsular war to the present day, man's quest for liberty has been constantly frustrated: he remains obsessed with his own mortality and drawn towards figures of death and decay.
Review:
That's my guess as to what this Pythonesque romp is about; as one sequence gives way to another and we follow a new character, expectations of what should constitute normal behaviour are subverted in typically surrealist fashion: to no one's surprise. The same goes for our expectations of how stories resolve themselves. Only children see the truth, while adults are hidebound by rites and formalities. Mounted in Buñuel's deadpan style with considerable aplomb, and unremittingly entertaining for those in on the joke.
(The Phantom of Liberty)
Country: FR
Technical: col 104m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, Jean Rochefort, Adolfo Celi, Claude Piéplu
Synopsis:
From the Peninsular war to the present day, man's quest for liberty has been constantly frustrated: he remains obsessed with his own mortality and drawn towards figures of death and decay.
Review:
That's my guess as to what this Pythonesque romp is about; as one sequence gives way to another and we follow a new character, expectations of what should constitute normal behaviour are subverted in typically surrealist fashion: to no one's surprise. The same goes for our expectations of how stories resolve themselves. Only children see the truth, while adults are hidebound by rites and formalities. Mounted in Buñuel's deadpan style with considerable aplomb, and unremittingly entertaining for those in on the joke.