The Luis Bunuel Collection - 7-DVD Box Set ( Belle de jour / Le Journal d'une femme de chambre / Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie / Cet obscur objet du désir / Le Fantôme de la liberté / La Voie lactée / Tristana ) ( Beauty of the Day / The Diary of a Chambermaid / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / That Obscure Object of Desire / The Phantom of Liberty / The Milky Way / Tristana )

The Luis Bunuel Collection - 7-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$109.99

Original Title: Belle de jour / Le Journal d'une femme de chambre / Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie / Cet obscur objet du désir / Le Fantôme de la liberté / La Voie lactée / Tristana
Alternate Title: Beauty of the Day / The Diary of a Chambermaid / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / That Obscure Object of Desire / The Phantom of Liberty / The Milky Way / Tristana
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Ceasar Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
Golden Globes
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
677 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1964 - 1977 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Mexico ( Latin America, Mexico )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Luis Bunuel
Julio Alejandro

Written By:
Luis Bunuel
Jean-Claude Carrière

Actors:
Catherine Deneuve ..... Séverine Serizy aka Belle de Jour
Jean Sorel ..... Pierre Serizy
Michel Piccoli ..... Henri Husson
Geneviève Page ..... Madame Anais
Pierre Clémenti ..... Marcel
Françoise Fabian ..... Charlotte
Macha Méril ..... Renee
Muni ..... Pallas
Maria Latour ..... Mathilde
Claude Cerval ..... Footman
Michel Charrel ..... Asian client
Iska Khan ..... Majordomo
Bernard Musson ..... Prof. Henri
Marcel Charvey ..... L'ensignant
François Maistre
Jeanne Moreau ..... Céléstine
Georges Géret ..... Joseph
Daniel Ivernel ..... Captain Mauger
Françoise Lugagne ..... Madame Monteil
Muni ..... Marianne
Jean Ozenne ..... Monsieur Rabour
Michel Piccoli ..... Monsieur Monteil
Joëlle Bernard ..... Le secrétaire du commissaire
Françoise Bertin
Aline Bertrand
Pierre Collet
Michel Dacquid
Madeleine Damien
Marc Eyraud
Jean Franval
Fernando Rey ..... Don Rafael
Paul Frankeur ..... M. Thevenot
Delphine Seyrig ..... Mme Thevenot
Bulle Ogier ..... Florence
Stéphane Audran ..... Alice Senechal (as Stephane Audran)
Jean-Pierre Cassel ..... M. Senechal
Julien Bertheau ..... Mgr Dufour
Milena Vukotic ..... Ines
Maria Gabriella Maione ..... Guerilla
Claude Piéplu ..... Colonel
Muni ..... Peasant
Pierre Maguelon ..... Sgt de police
François Maistre ..... Delecluze
Michel Piccoli ..... Ministre
Ellen Bahl
Fernando Rey ..... Mathieu
Carole Bouquet ..... Conchita
Ángela Molina ..... Conchita (as Angela Molina)
Julien Bertheau ..... Judge
André Weber ..... Valet (as Andre Weber)
Milena Vukotic ..... Woman in train
María Asquerino ..... Manolita
Ellen Bahl ..... La femme qui reprise dans la vitrine (as Auguste Carriere)
Valerie Blanco ..... Un voyageur
Auguste Carrière
Jacques Debary
Antonio Duque
André Lacombe
Lita Lluch-Peiro
Annie Monange
Adriana Asti ..... La dame en noir et la soeur du premier préfet/Prefect's Sister
Julien Bertheau ..... Le premier préfet de police/First Prefect
Jean-Claude Brialy ..... Foucauld/Mr. Foucauld
Adolfo Celi ..... Le docteur de Legendre/Doctor Pasolini
Paul Frankeur ..... L'aubergiste/Innkeeper
Michael Lonsdale ..... Le chapelier/Hatter
Pierre Maguelon ..... Gérard, le gendarme/Policeman
François Maistre ..... Le professeur des gendarmes/Professor
Hélène Perdrière ..... La vieille tante/Aunt
Michel Piccoli ..... Le second préfet de police/Second Prefect
Claude Piéplu ..... Le commissaire de police/Commissioner
Jean Rochefort ..... Legendre/Mr. Legendre
Bernard Verley ..... Le capitaine des dragons/Judge
Milena Vukotic ..... L'infirmière/Nurse
Monica Vitti ..... Mme Foucaud/Mrs. Foucauld
Paul Frankeur ..... Pierre
Laurent Terzieff ..... Jean
Alain Cuny ..... L'homme à la cape/Man with cape
Edith Scob ..... La Vierge Marie/Virgin Mary
Bernard Verley ..... Jésus/Jesus
François Maistre ..... Le curé fou/French Priest
Claude Cerval ..... Le brigadier/Brigadier
Muni ..... La mère supérieure/Mother Superior
Julien Bertheau ..... Richard 'maître d'hôtel'/Maitre d'Hotel
Ellen Bahl ..... Madame Garnier
Michel Piccoli ..... Le marquis de Sade/The Marquis
Agnès Capri ..... La directrice de l'institution Lamartine/Teacher
Michel Etcheverry ..... L'inquisiteur/The Inquisitor
Pierre Clémenti ..... L'ange de la mort/The Devil
Georges Marchal ..... Le jésuite/The Jesuit
Catherine Deneuve ..... Tristana
Fernando Rey ..... Don Lope
Franco Nero ..... Horacio
Lola Gaos ..... Saturna
Antonio Casas ..... Don Cosme
Jesús Fernández ..... Saturno
Vicente Soler ..... Don Ambrosio
José Calvo ..... Bellringer
Fernando Cebrián ..... Dr. Miquis
Antonio Ferrandis ..... Citizen
José María Caffarel ..... Muchacha
Cándida Losada ..... Don Cándido (as Juan José Menéndez)
Joaquín Pamplona
Mary Paz Pondal
Juanjo Menéndez
Zachary Scott ..... Miller
Bernie Hamilton ..... Traver
Key Meersman ..... Evalyn
Crahan Denton ..... Jackson
Claudio Brook ..... Rev. Fleetwood

Synopsis:

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Jeanne Moreau is a chambermaid who uses her feminine charms to control and advance her situation, in a social setting of corruption, violence, sexual obsession and perversion.
Belle de Jour (1967)
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Tristana (1970)
After the death of her mother, Tristana goes to live with her guardian, Don Lope, an older man who eventually breaks through his façade of respectability and seduces her. She repays him a hundred fold, preying on his jealousy and taunting him with perverse whimsies.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita.
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career.
The Milky Way (1969)
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

A collection of films by Spanish auteur Luis Buñuel. In 'The Diary of a Chambermaid' (1964), Jeanne Moreau stars as Celestine, a beautiful and sharp-witted young maid from Paris who arrives to work on the rural Normandy estate of the wealthy Monsieur Rabour (Jean Ozenne), his daughter Madame Monteil (Françoise Lugagne) and her husband Monsieur Montiel (Michel Piccoli), soon becoming conversant with the family's many quirks. A scathing commentary on the fascism that was gaining ground in 1930s France underpins the film, as Celestine realises that, despite their hypocrisy and moral corruption, it is not her dim-witted bourgeois employers that pose a threat so much as the scheming, Jew-hating upper servant Joseph (Georges Géret), who rules the servants with intimidation and colludes with his bourgeois employers to serve his own interests. In 'Belle De Jour' (1967), a bored doctor's wife (Catherine Deneuve) hears of a brothel operating near her home. Struck by a sudden desire, she goes to the brothel and offers her services in the afternoons. She encounters a wide range of characters, eventually running into a friend of her husband... In 'Tristana' (1970), Deneuve plays a young devout woman who goes to live with her male guardian after her mother's death. His intentions towards her are clearly more than fatherly, however, leading to an enforced marriage and Tristana eventually fleeing to Madrid, when she falls in love with a young artist. Years later, afflicted with a life-threatening illness, she plots revenge against the man who had stripped her of her innocence. In the surrealist satire 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' (1972), well-to-do couple the Thévenots (Paul Frankeur and Delphine Seyrig), accompany M. Thévenot's colleague Rafael Acosta (Fernando Rey) and Mme. Thévenot's sister Florence (Bulle Ogier), to the house of Henri and Alice Sénéchal (Jean-Pierre Cassel and Stéphane Audran), who are hosting a dinner party. So begins a series of increasingly bizarre episodes and surreal dream sequences as the diners, over the course of the following days, find themselves repeatedly frustrated in their attempts at eating out. In 'That Obscure Object of Desire' (1977), Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a widowed French businessman, becomes obsessed with a Spanish girl named Conchita (Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina). She claims to feel the same for him but nevertheless continually frustrates the realisation of his desire. Meanwhile, in the background, a series of terrorist bomb attacks are carried out by the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus. The dream-like, plotless comedy 'The Phantom of Liberty' (1974) begins with a man who falls in love with a statue during the Napoleonic wars and then moves to the modern day, where we meet a man distributing pornographic postcards (actually just pictures of public monuments), a young girl who has disappeared but who nevertheless helps the police as they prepare to search for her, and a group of dinner party guests who sit on toilets around a large dining table and then politely excuse themselves when they need to go outside and eat. Finally, the allegorical tale 'The Milky Way' (1969) follows two tramps as they undertake a pilgrimage from Paris to Compostello, Spain. Along the way they meet a prostitute, the devil, the Virgin Mary, the Marquis de Sade and Jesus.

Beauty of the Day/Belle de jour
Severine Serizy, happily married to a handsome young surgeon, goes to work in a house of ill repute, actually an intimate apartment. The money involved is less the motivation than the pretext for her action. Pierre, her husband, provides for her material needs handsomely, but his respectfully temporizing caresses fail to satisfy her psychic need for brutal degradation, a need first awakened by a child molester when she was eight. To preserve a facade of marital respectability, Severine works at her obsessive profession only afternoons from two to five, the mystery of her matinée schedule causing her to be christened Belle de jour.
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine, the chambermaid has new job on the country. The Monteils, who she works for are a group of strange people. The wife is frigid, her husband is always hunting (both animals and women) and her father is a shoe-fetishist. Joseph, the farm-labourer is a fascist and sexually attracted to Celestine. Celestine settles herself and talks to the neighbour, an ex-officer, who likes damaging his neighbour's things. After the death of the old man, she quits her job, but because of the rape and murder of a child 'Little Claire' she decides to stay, believing that Joseph is the murderer. To get his confession she sleeps with him and promises to merry him. In spite of her engagement she fakes evidence to implicate him in the murder. He is arrested, but is released because the evidence is inconclusive. She marries the ex-officer and takes on a housewife role similar to that of Madame Monteil
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of six outwardly respectable upper-middle class members of society and their repeatedly thwarted attempts to have a meal together - the interruptions becoming more and more surreal as the film progresses.
That Obscure Object of Desire
Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...
The Phantom of Liberty
One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on lavatories round a dinner table on, occasionally retiring to a little room to eat.
The Milky Way
Two tramps going on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, meet different christian heresies. They meet too the Marquis of Sade.
Tristana
When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable nature, despite his socialistic views about business and religion. But Don Lope's one weakness is women, and he falls for the innocent girl in his charge, seduces her, makes her his lover, though all the while explaining to her that she is as free as he. But when she acts on this freedom, Don Lope must deal with the consequences of his world-view.

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