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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Poster for the movie "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"
Poster for the movie "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

101 min - Comedy - 15 September 1972
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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.

Director:  Luis Buñuel
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The Cousins

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The Cousins (1959)

112 min - Drama - 11 March 1959
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Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.

Director:  Claude Chabrol
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