Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it’s merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David’s secrecy…
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…
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Hubert de Tartas’ life becomes a complete muddle when his wife’s grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the…
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He’s struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who’s trying to impress…