104 mins |
Rated
R18
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Starring Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adriana Asti, Jean Rochefort
Playing as part of our 'The Cinema of Luis Buñuel' film retrospective playing June 8th - 21st.
Specially priced $10 tickets.
'Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. 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—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.'
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Playing as part of our 'The Cinema of Luis Buñuel' film retrospective playing June 8th - 21st.
Specially priced $10 tickets.
'Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. 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—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.'