The Phantom of Liberty
Luis Bunuel's kinkiest comedy.
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Release Date
9/10/1974Runtime
104 minsGenres
Overview
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
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$6,749Homepage
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A gleefully disorienting tapestry of surreal vignettes that mock social conventions and moral authority with anarchic humor and transgressive imagery. Buñuel demands you abandon narrative logic and surrender to the film's anarchic logic instead.
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Heads up
Adriana Asti
La dame en noir, la soeur du premier préfet
Milena Vukotić
L'infirmière
Jean-Claude Brialy
M. Foucault
Monica Vitti
Mme Foucault
Jean Rochefort
M. Legendre
Michel Piccoli
Le deuxième préfet de police
Adolfo Celi
Le médécin
Claude Piéplu
Le commissaire
Paul Frankeur
L'aubergiste
Pierre Maguelon
Le gendarme
François Maistre
Le professeur
Marie-France Pisier
Mme Calmette
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