The 1972 surrealist film written and directed by Luis Buñuel, received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is described on Wikipedia as "a complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams", and is about a group of upper middle-class people attempting — despite continual interruptions — to eat together.
It's in French, with subtitles. It's also unrated. Items of concern to sensitive viewers include several scenes of couples trying to have sex (and failing. No nudity), several scenes with ghosts and a subplot that involves drug dealing.
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I've actually heard of this one!
If you are interested in surrealist art and/or film history, check out "L'Age D'Or" and "Un Chien Andalou," two earlier films by the same director. Bunuel even collaborated with Salvador Dali on "Chien Andalou"!
Yes, it was a most pleasant film and evening. I apalogize for my drinking problem. I know it can get out of hand and it did. So once again, I apalogize.
Yea, I did really like the film. There was definitely an existentialist vein to it, much like Kafka, as Katie mentioned, and Sartre as well, but it was much more light hearted than both authors. I loved that it was so funny.
Although the people were petty, and superficial I do think there seemed to be a genuineness to their flatness that seemed to really give them a charm, especially the ladies. But this may be a writer's and caster's trick. Because people, and especially it would seem that women, the more attractive the more they get away with, the more the charm. This is not always true but I wonder if I have been duped in this way.
But the movie was indeed charming, and even pleasant in a bizarre sort of way.
What is the history of the Alpha 6 Film Society? And the name?
What is the history of the Alpha 6 Film Society? And the name?
Alpha 60 began in June of this year. So far, we have watched a collection of shorts, Mirror Mask, Orlando, Alphaville and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. The society is named after the supercomputer which controls the citizens of Alphaville in Jean Luc Godard's noir masterpiece. Check it out if you haven't seen it (you can borrow my copy).
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