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.
Direction
Buñuel's dream logic feels both random and inevitable.
Writing
Dinner party dialogue that weaponizes small talk.
Acting
Delphine Seyrig's deadpan suffering is unmatched.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Fernando Rey
Don Rafael
Delphine Seyrig
Simone Thévenot
Paul Frankeur
François Thévenot
Stéphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal
Bulle Ogier
Florence
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Henri Sénéchal
Julien Bertheau
Monsignor Dufour
Claude Piéplu
Colonel
Michel Piccoli
Interior Minister
François Maistre
Inspector Delecluze
Pierre Maguelon
Police Sergeant
Maxence Mailfort
Sergeant Recounting Dream
Milena Vukotić
Ines
Muni
Peasant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Buñuel won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with this, his most commercially successful movie.
The 'discreet charm' title is pure irony—Buñuel originally wanted to call it 'The Castaways of Calle de Providencia' before producers intervened.
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