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The Phantom of Liberty
Why this pick
Buñuel again turns bourgeois routine, police authority, and social taboo inside out through a dryly comic chain of episodes with dream logic rather than conventional plot.
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MOVIE1969 1h 42m FRA
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Simon of the Desert
Why this pick
Its austere religious setting becomes the stage for Buñuel’s mischievous, anachronistic attacks on sanctity, temptation, and doctrinal certainty.
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The Exterminating Angel
Why this pick
A polished gathering collapses into ritualistic absurdity, combining Buñuel’s cool visual control, social satire, and unsettling refusal to explain the impossible.
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Why this pick
Its interrupted meals and nested dreams share The Milky Way’s deadpan surrealism and its pleasure in letting respectable conversation expose ideological absurdity.
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The Holy Mountain
Why this pick
A flamboyant pilgrimage through commerce, religion, and spiritual spectacle makes a strong fit for the sacrilegious, episodic quest structure—though with far more baroque imagery.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Two French vagrants, Pierre and Jean, decide to take the pilgrimage route from Paris to Santiago de Compostela along the traditional Way of St. James. As they walk along a roadside in France, they encounter a man in a black cape who tells them to sleep with a prostitute and have children with her. Then the pilgrims reach an inn, they find a police sergeant and a priest discussing the nature of the eucharist and transubstantiation. The priest is taken away by staff from a nearby mental hospital. Later, the pilgrims find shelter for the night on a farm, while a secret Priscillian sect is meeting nearby. Their secret service involves ritual repetition, a short statement of faith, followed by sexual encounters between the male and female congregation.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Edith Scob
Virgin Mary
Bernard Verley
Jesus
François Maistre
French Priest
Jean Piat
Le comte
Denis Manuel
Rodolphe
Daniel Pilon
François
Julien Guiomar
Le curé espagnol
Alain Cuny
Man with cape