The Phantom of Liberty ( Le fantôme de la liberté ) ( Il fantasma della libertà (The Specter of Freedom) )

The Phantom of Liberty (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le fantôme de la liberté
Alternate Title: Il fantasma della libertà (The Specter of Freedom)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Luis Bunuel

Written By:
Luis Bunuel
Jean-Claude Carrière

Actors:
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

Synopsis:

One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them 'pornographic.' A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A 'missing' child helps the police fill out the report on her. A group of monks play poker, using religious medallions as chips, and in the most infamous sequence, a formally dressed social group gathers at toilets around a table, occasionally excusing themselves to go into little stalls in a private room to eat.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 August, 2011.

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