The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a 1972 surrealist comedy directed by Luis Bunuel, a French, Italian and Spanish co-production following a group of upper-class friends and a South American ambassador whose repeated attempts to sit down together for a meal are interrupted by increasingly bizarre and illogical events. The film satirizes the manners and moral blindness of the bourgeoisie through dream sequences and unexplained disruptions rather than a conventional plot. It won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973 and is regarded as one of the clearest statements of Bunuel's surrealist style within an accessible comic frame.