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Overview

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.

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    Fernando Rey

    Don Rafael

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    Delphine Seyrig

    Simone Thévenot

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    Paul Frankeur

    François Thévenot

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    Stéphane Audran

    Alice Sénéchal

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    Bulle Ogier

    Florence

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    Jean-Pierre Cassel

    Henri Sénéchal

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    Julien Bertheau

    Monsignor Dufour

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    Claude Piéplu

    Colonel

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    Michel Piccoli

    Interior Minister

It's quite a difficult film to review this, as it essentially has no real plot and very little structure. It is a series of dream sequences following a group of friends - each with some form of skeleton in their closet - as they try to meet for a dinner that repeatedly gets aborted. Fernando Rey is on good form as the Ambassador from the Republic of "Miranda" - a man living in fear for his life from revolutionaries at home, and who is also not averse to adding a little spice to the contents of the diplomatic bag. Jean-Pierre Cassel and Stéphane Audran are the "Sénéchal" couple - they like a bi...