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{{Short description|1972 film by Luis Buñuel}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
| image          = Discreet-charm-poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| native_name    = {{Infobox name module|fr|Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie}}
| director       = [[Luis Buñuel]]
| writer         = {{Plainlist|
* Luis Buñuel
* [[Jean-Claude Carrière]]{{efn|Collaboration}}
}}
| producer       = [[Serge Silberman]]
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Fernando Rey]]
* [[Paul Frankeur]]
* [[Delphine Seyrig]]
* [[Bulle Ogier]]
* [[Stéphane Audran]]
* [[Jean-Pierre Cassel]]
* [[Julien Bertheau]]
* [[Milena Vukotic]]
* Maria Gabriella Maione
* [[Claude Piéplu]]
* [[Muni (actress)|Muni]]
* [[François Maistre]]
* [[Pierre Maguelon]]
* [[Maxence Mailfort]]
}}
| cinematography = [[Edmond Richard (cinematographer)|Edmond Richard]]
| editing        = Hélène Plemiannikov
| studio         = Greenwich Film Productions
| distributor    = [[20th Century Fox]]
| released       = {{film date|1972|9|15|France|1973|04|13|Italy|1973|04|21|Spain|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 101 minutes
| country        = {{Plainlist|
* France
* Italy
* Spain
}}
| language       = {{Plainlist|
* French
* Italian
* Spanish
}}
| budget         = $800,000
| gross          = $286,916<ref name="NUM">{{cite The Numbers|title=The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie|id=Discreet-Charm-of-the-Bourgeoisie|access-date=27 January 2022|publisher_hide=yes}}</ref>
}}

'''''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''''' ({{langx|fr|'''Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie'''}}) is a 1972 [[Surrealist cinema|surrealist]] [[Satire (film and television)|satirical]] [[dark comedy]] film directed by [[Luis Buñuel]], who wrote the [[screenplay]] in collaboration with [[Jean-Claude Carrière]].<ref>{{cite book|year=2004|title=The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide|publisher=Sasquatch Books|location=Seattle|page=32|isbn=978-1-57-061415-6}}</ref> The narrative concerns a group of French [[bourgeoisie]] and the fictional South American country of [[List of fictional countries in the Americas#South America|Miranda]]'s ambassador to France attempting—despite continual interruptions—to dine together. The film stars [[Fernando Rey]], [[Paul Frankeur]], [[Delphine Seyrig]], [[Bulle Ogier]], [[Stéphane Audran]], [[Jean-Pierre Cassel]], [[Julien Bertheau]] and [[Milena Vukotic]].

The film consists of several thematically linked scenes: five gatherings of a group of bourgeois friends, and the four dreams of different characters. The beginning of the film focuses on the gatherings, while the latter part focuses on the dreams, but both are intertwined. There are also scenes involving other characters, including two in which a [[Maoism|Maoist]] terrorist from Miranda attempts to assassinate the ambassador. The film's world is not logical, and the bizarre events are accepted by the characters.

''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' was a critical and commercial success. It won the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]] and [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards]] for [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress in a Leading Role]] (Audran) and [[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]] (Buñuel and Carrière).<ref name="Oscars1973">{{Cite web |title=The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1973 |access-date=30 November 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707021841/https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1973 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Plot==
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A French bourgeois couple, François and Simone Thévenot, accompany François's colleague Don Rafael Acosta (the ambassador from the South American nation of [[List of fictional countries in the Americas#South America|Miranda]]) and Simone's sister Florence to the house of the Sénéchals, the hosts of a dinner party. Alice Sénéchal is surprised to see them, explaining that she expected them the following evening and has no dinner prepared. The would-be guests then invite Alice to join them for dinner at a nearby inn. There, a waitress informs them that the restaurant is under new management. There are no diners inside, and the party hurriedly departs shortly after discovering a [[Vigil#Vigils at the time of death|vigil]] for the manager, who died a few hours earlier, in an adjoining room.

Acosta, François, and Alice's husband Henri meet the next day at the Mirandan embassy to discuss the proceeds of a large cocaine deal. Acosta sees a young woman selling clockwork-animal toys outside; he shoots one of the toys with a rifle and the woman runs off. He explains that she is part of a [[Maoism|Maoist]] Mirandan terrorist group that has been targeting him for months.

Two days later, the friends arrive at the Sénéchals' for lunch, but Henri and Alice escape to the garden to have sex instead of joining them. Acosta deduces that the Sénéchals know the police are coming and have fled to avoid arrest for their involvement in drug trafficking, prompting the group to leave in a panic.

When the Sénéchals return from the garden to find the rest of the group gone, they meet a bishop who has donned their gardener's clothing. They throw him out, but when he returns wearing his bishop's robes, they embrace him with deference. The bishop asks to work for them as their gardener. He tells them that when he was a child, his parents were [[Arsenic poisoning|poisoned with arsenic]] and the culprit was never apprehended.

The women visit a [[teahouse]], where a soldier tells them about his childhood. Following his mother's death, his cold-hearted father sent him to military school. The ghost of the soldier's mother informed him that the man was not his real father but his father's killer; they had dueled over her. She asks her son to poison the culprit, and he complies.

Simone meets Acosta, with whom she is having an affair, at his apartment. They retreat to his bedroom to have sex but are interrupted by a visit from François, whereupon she makes a convenient excuse and leaves with him. Acosta is then visited by the terrorist, who has come to kill him. He ambushes and chastises her, and tells her to leave after she refuses his sexual advances. As she leaves, he signals to agents waiting across the street, who capture her.

The group convenes at the Sénéchals' for dinner, but are interrupted the arrival of an army regiment, who join the dinner only to be called away for alarmingly close maneuvers. The colonel invites them to his house in return; Henri dreams that the colonel's dining room is a stage set in a theatrical performance where the audience is angry with the actors for not knowing their lines. François dreams that, at the dinner, the colonel badgers Acosta about the political situation in Miranda, culminating in Acosta shooting the colonel.

The bishop is called away from gardening to give [[absolution]] to a dying gardener, who confesses to poisoning his former employers due to their mistreatment of him. Realizing that the employers were his parents, the bishop finishes giving the gardener absolution before fatally shooting him with a shotgun.

The Sénéchals, the Thévenots, and Acosta are arrested for drug trafficking. The police chief dreams that the ghost of a former inspector killed in retribution for torturing a student protestor releases the traffickers. He wakes up from the dream to learn that the Interior Minister has ordered them to be released. Acosta dreams that they return to the Sénéchals' for dinner but are shot by a rival gang of drug traffickers from [[Marseille]]. After waking up, he walks to the kitchen and sloppily eats leftovers stored in the refrigerator.

A recurring scene of the six people walking silently and purposefully on an isolated country road is also the final sequence.

==Cast==
{{Cast listing|
* [[Fernando Rey]] as Rafael Acosta
* [[Paul Frankeur]] as François Thévenot
* [[Delphine Seyrig]] as Simone Thévenot
* [[Bulle Ogier]] as Florence Thévenot
* [[Stéphane Audran]] as Alice Sénéchal
* [[Jean-Pierre Cassel]] as Henri Sénéchal
* [[Julien Bertheau]] as [[Monsignor]] Dufour, the Bishop
* [[Milena Vukotic]] as Inès, the Sénéchals' maid
* {{ill|Maria Gabriella Maione|fr}} as the female terrorist
* [[Claude Piéplu]] as the Colonel
* [[Muni (actress)|Muni]] as the peasant
* [[Pierre Maguelon]] as [[Brigadier]] Sanglant
* [[François Maistre]] as [[Commissaire de police|Commissaire]] Delecluze
* [[Michel Piccoli]] as the [[Minister of the Interior (France)|Minister of the Interior]]
* {{ill|Christian Baltauss|fr}} as Lt. Hubert de Rochcahin
* [[Georges Douking]] as the gardener
* {{ill|Alix Mahieux|fr}} as the Colonel's wife
* [[Bernard Musson]] as the teahouse waiter
* [[Maxence Mailfort]] as the dreaming Sergeant
* [[Jacques Rispal]] as the [[Gendarmerie|Gendarme]]
* [[Amparo Soler Leal]] as Rochcahin's mother
}}

==Production==

===Pre-production===
After having announced that ''[[Tristana (film)|Tristana]]'' (1970) would be his last film because he felt he was repeating himself, Buñuel met with screenwriter [[Jean-Claude Carrière]] and discussed the topic of repetition.{{sfn|Wakeman|1987|p=88}} Shortly afterwards, Buñuel met with film producer [[Serge Silberman]], who told him an anecdote about having forgotten about a dinner party and being surprised to see six hungry friends show up at his front door. Buñuel was suddenly inspired, and Silberman agreed to give him a $2,000 advance to write a new script with Carrière. They wrote the first draft in three weeks and finished the fifth draft by the summer of 1971, titled ''Bourgeois Enchantment''. Silberman had secured enough money for the film in April 1972, whereupon Buñuel began pre-production.{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=299}}{{sfn|Wakeman|1987|pp=88-89}}

Buñuel cast many actors whom he had worked with in the past, such as [[Fernando Rey]] and [[Michel Piccoli]], and adjusted their roles to their personalities. He had more difficulty casting the female leads, and allowed [[Delphine Seyrig]] and [[Stéphane Audran]] to choose which parts they would like to play before changing the script to better suit them. When [[Jean-Pierre Cassel]] auditioned for his role, he was surprised when Buñuel cast him after simply glancing at him once.{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=300}}

===Filming and editing===
Filming began on 15 May 1972, and lasted for two months on an $800,000 budget ({{Inflation|index=US|value=800,000|start_year=1972|r=0|fmt=eq}}). In his usual shooting style, Buñuel shot few takes and often edited the film in camera and during production; Buñuel and Silberman had a long-running and humorous argument as to whether Buñuel took one day or one and a half days to edit his films.{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=301}}

On the advice of Silberman, Buñuel used video playback monitors on the set for the first time in his career. This resulted in a vastly different style than any of his previous films, including extensive use of zooms and [[tracking shot]]s instead of his usual close-ups and static camera framing.{{sfn|Wakeman|1987|pp=88-89}} It also resulted in Buñuel's being more comfortable on set and limiting his already minimal direction to technical and physical instructions. This frustrated Cassel, who had never worked with Buñuel before, until Rey explained that this was Buñuel's usual style and that since they were playing aristocrats their movements and physical appearance were more important than their inner motivation.

Buñuel once joked that whenever he needed an extra scene he simply filmed one of his own dreams. ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' includes three of Buñuel's recurring dreams: a dream of being on stage and forgetting his lines, a dream of meeting his dead cousin in the street and following him into a house full of cobwebs, and a dream of waking up to see his dead parents staring at him.{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=301}}

==Reception==
===Critical response===
''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' was a critical and commercial success in both Europe and the United States.{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=301}} [[Roger Ebert]] called it a comedy, but noted that Buñuel's comedies were "more like a dig in the ribs, sly and painful."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie-1972|title=The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie|date=25 June 2000|accessdate=10 February 2021|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|website=[[RogerEbert.com]]|archive-date=2 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602094814/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie-1972|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Robert Benayoun]] described it as "perhaps [Buñuel's] most direct and most 'public' film".{{sfn|Wakeman|1987|p=89}} [[Vincent Canby]] wrote: “In addition to being extraordinarily funny and perfectly acted, ''The Discreet Charm'' moves with the breathtaking speed and self-assurance that only a man of Buñuel’s experience can achieve without resorting to awkward ellipsis.”<ref>{{cite news|last=Canby|first=Vincent|author-link=Vincent Canby|date=14 October 1972|title='The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/14/archives/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie.html|access-date=28 December 2022|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043205/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/10/14/archives/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Buñuel later said that he was disappointed with most critics' analysis of the film; he also disliked the film's promotional poster, depicting a pair of lips with legs and a [[bowler hat]].{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=301}}{{sfn|Wakeman|1987|p=89}}

Buñuel and Silberman travelled to the United States in late 1972 to promote the film. Buñuel did not attend his own press screening in Los Angeles and told a ''[[Newsweek]]'' reporter that his favorite characters in the film were the cockroaches which appear in one of the dream sequences. While visiting Los Angeles, Buñuel, Carrière and Silberman were invited to a lunch party by Buñuel's old friend [[George Cukor]] where other guests included [[Alfred Hitchcock]], [[Billy Wilder]], [[George Stevens]], [[Rouben Mamoulian]], [[John Ford]], [[William Wyler]], [[Robert Mulligan]] and [[Robert Wise]].{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=302}} [[Fritz Lang]], one of Buñuel's favorite directors, was unable to attend, but Buñuel visited him the following day and received an autographed photo.{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=302-303}}

On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 98% based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 8.5/10. The website's consensus reads, "An intoxicating dose of the director's signature [[Surrealist cinema|surrealist]] style, ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' represents Buñuel at his most accessible."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_discreet_charm_of_the_bourgeoisie|title=The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=15 January 2025}}</ref> [[Metacritic]], which uses a [[Weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]], assigned the film a score of 93 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/|title=The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie &#91;re-release&#93;|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=19 June 2024}}</ref>

===Accolades===
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|-
!width="25%"|Award
!width="5%"|Year
!width="40%"|Category
!width="20%"|Nominee
!width="10%"|Result
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=2|[[Academy Awards]]<ref name="Oscars1973"/>
|rowspan=2|[[45th Academy Awards|1973]]
|[[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign Language Film]]
|[[France]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]
|Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
|{{nom}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=5|[[BAFTA Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Film in 1974 {{!}} BAFTA Awards|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1974/film|access-date=28 December 2022|website=awards.bafta.org|archive-date=13 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113113647/http://awards.bafta.org/award/1974/film|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rowspan=5|[[27th British Academy Film Awards|1974]]
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
|''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]
|[[Luis Buñuel]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress]]
|[[Stéphane Audran]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]
|Luis Buñuel, [[Jean-Claude Carrière]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[BAFTA Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
|Luis Buñuel, Guy Villette
|{{nom}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[French Syndicate of Cinema Critics]]
|1973
|Prix Méliès
|''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''
|{{won}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[Golden Globe Awards]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Winners & Nominees 1973 - Foreign Film - Foreign Language|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1973|access-date=28 December 2022|publisher=[[Golden Globes]]|archive-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119120204/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1973|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|[[30th Golden Globe Awards|1973]]
||[[Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film|Best Foreign-Language Film]]
|''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''
|{{nom}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[Nastro d'Argento]]
|1974
|Best Foreign Director
|Luis Buñuel
|{{nom}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[National Board of Review|National Board of Review Awards]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=1972 Archives|url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1972/|access-date=28 December 2022|publisher=[[National Board of Review]]|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043205/https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1972/|url-status=live}}</ref>
|[[National Board of Review Awards 1972|1972]]
|Top Foreign Language Films
|''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''
|{{won}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=3|[[National Society of Film Critics|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|author-link=A. H. Weiler|date=29 December 1972|title=Movie by Bunuel Voted Best of '72|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/29/archives/movie-by-bunuel-voted-best-of-72-national-society-of-critics-picks.html|access-date=28 December 2022|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043206/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/29/archives/movie-by-bunuel-voted-best-of-72-national-society-of-critics-picks.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rowspan=3|[[1972 National Society of Film Critics Awards|1972]]
|[[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
|''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''
|{{won}}
|-
|[[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|Luis Buñuel
|{{won}}
|-
|[[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
|{{nom}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=2|[[New York Film Critics Circle|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Weiler|first=A. H.|date=4 January 1973|title=Critics Choose 'Cries and Whispers'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/04/archives/critics-choose-cries-and-whispers-godfather-runnerup-a-secret.html|access-date=28 December 2022|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043218/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/04/archives/critics-choose-cries-and-whispers-godfather-runnerup-a-secret.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
|rowspan=2|[[1973 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|1973]]
|[[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|Luis Buñuel
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
|Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
|{{nom}}
|-
|}

===Academy Award win===
Silberman decided not to wait until May 1973 to premiere the film at the [[Cannes Film Festival]], and instead released it in the autumn of 1972 to make it eligible for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]. Buñuel was famously indifferent to awards and jokingly told a reporter that he had already paid a bribe of $25,000 in order to win the Oscar.<ref>{{cite news|date=8 June 2012|title=The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie - A dinner that charts|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie-a-dinner-that-charts-civilisation-s-decline-7827654.html|last=McNab|first=Geoffrey|access-date=28 December 2022|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043205/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie-a-dinner-that-charts-civilisation-s-decline-7827654.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Silberman accepted the award on Buñuel's behalf at the ceremony. At the academy's request, Buñuel posed with the Oscar statuette for a photograph, but wore a wig and oversized sunglasses.{{sfn|Baxter|1994|p=302}}<ref>{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKA3M3NQVIg|title="The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" Wins Foreign Language Film: 1973 Oscars|date=11 July 2013|access-date=28 December 2022|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043202/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKA3M3NQVIg|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Home media==
In January 2021, ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' was released by [[The Criterion Collection]] as part of a Buñuel box set with its successors ''[[The Phantom of Liberty]]'' (1974) and ''[[That Obscure Object of Desire]]'' (1977).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mynbc15.com/news/entertainment/new-dvd-blu-ray-and-digital-release-highlights-for-the-week-of-january-4-10-2021|last=Painter|first=Ryan|title=New DVD, Blu-ray and digital release highlights for the week of January 4-10, 2021|date=5 January 2021|access-date=19 June 2024|archive-date=19 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619193126/https://mynbc15.com/news/entertainment/new-dvd-blu-ray-and-digital-release-highlights-for-the-week-of-january-4-10-2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

In June 2022, ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' received a [[4K resolution|4K]] digital restoration from [[StudioCanal]] for its 50th anniversary.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hoberman|first=J.|title=Still Charming at 50: Luis Buñuel's Greatest Hit|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/movies/luis-bunuel-discreet-charm-bourgeois.html|access-date=28 December 2022|work=The New York Times|date=23 June 2022|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043202/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/movies/luis-bunuel-discreet-charm-bourgeois.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The restoration was issued on Blu-ray and DVD.<ref>{{cite web|title=Studiocanal announces 50th anniversary 4K restoration of Luis Buñuel's 'The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoisie'|url=https://theartsshelf.com/2022/05/24/studiocanal-announces-50th-anniversary-4k-restoration-of-luis-bunuels-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/|website=The Arts Shelf|access-date=28 December 2022|date=24 May 2022|archive-date=28 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221228043218/https://theartsshelf.com/2022/05/24/studiocanal-announces-50th-anniversary-4k-restoration-of-luis-bunuels-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Discreet-Charm-of-The-Bourgeoisie-Blu-ray/316953/|title=The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie|access-date=19 June 2022|archive-date=19 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619200634/https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Discreet-Charm-of-The-Bourgeoisie-Blu-ray/316953/|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 23 March 2018, Panorama released the film on Blu-ray in Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Discreet-Charm-of-the-Bourgeoisie-Blu-ray/202010/|title=The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Blu-ray|access-date=19 June 2022|archive-date=19 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619200626/https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Discreet-Charm-of-the-Bourgeoisie-Blu-ray/202010/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Adaptations==
In October 2014, [[Stephen Sondheim]] and [[David Ives]] announced that they were developing a new musical provisionally titled ''Square One'', with a plot inspired by both ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'' and Buñuel's 1962 film ''[[The Exterminating Angel]]'', projected to open in 2017.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Voss|first=Brandon|author-link=Brandon Voss|url=https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/theater/2014/10/14/stephen-sondheim-working-new-musical|title=Stephen Sondheim Is Working on a New Musical|magazine=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|date=14 October 2014|access-date=19 June 2024|archive-date=19 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240619200633/https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/theater/2014/10/14/stephen-sondheim-working-new-musical|url-status=live}}</ref> Production ceased at some point,{{When|date=July 2024}} but Sondheim held a September 2021 reading.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wood |first=Alex |date=28 April 2021 |title=Sondheim's new musical Buñuel is reportedly no longer in development |url=https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/sondheims-new-musical-bunuel-development_53916.html |access-date=29 April 2021 |website=[[WhatsOnStage.com]] |archive-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428131956/https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/sondheims-new-musical-bunuel-development_53916.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Stephen Sondheim Is Still Writing New Works, As 'Company' Returns To Broadway| date=16 September 2021|publisher=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert|via=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKSYeMgamIA|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/GKSYeMgamIA|archive-date=22 December 2021|url-status=live|language=en|access-date=16 September 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Major|first=Michael|title=VIDEO: Nathan Lane Talks Reading of a New Sondheim Musical With Bernadette Peters|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Nathan-Lane-Talks-Reading-of-a-New-Sondheim-Musical-With-Bernadette-Peters-20210915|access-date=2021-09-16|website=BroadwayWorld.com|archive-date=16 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916144446/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/VIDEO-Nathan-Lane-Talks-Reading-of-a-New-Sondheim-Musical-With-Bernadette-Peters-20210915|url-status=live}}</ref> Following Sondheim's death that November, Ives announced that the musical, retitled ''[[Here We Are (musical)|Here We Are]]'', would have a limited engagement world premiere in September 2023 at [[The Shed (arts center)|The Shed]] in Manhattan.<ref name="Rosky 2023">{{cite web|last=Rosky|first=Nicole|title=Final Sondheim Musical, HERE WE ARE, Will Get World Premiere This Fall|website=BroadwayWorld.com|date=16 March 2023|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Final-Sondheim-Musical-HERE-WE-ARE-Will-Get-World-Premiere-This-Fall-20230316|access-date=22 March 2023|archive-date=21 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321223542/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Final-Sondheim-Musical-HERE-WE-ARE-Will-Get-World-Premiere-This-Fall-20230316|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Update inline|date=July 2024}}

==See also==
* [[Bourgeois personality]]
* [[List of fictional countries]]
* [[List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[List of submissions to the 45th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film]]
* [[Mr. Robot]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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===Bibliography===
* {{cite book|last=Baxter|first=John|author-link=John Baxter (author)|title=Buñuel|publisher=Fourth Estate Limited|year=1994|isbn=978-1-85-702179-0|location=London}}
* {{cite book|last=Wakeman|first=John|title=World Film Directors, Volume 1|publisher=The H. W. Wilson Company|year=1987|isbn=978-0-82-420757-1}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Kinder|first=Marsha|author-link=Marsha Kinder|title=Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|isbn=0-521-56831-5|url=http://www.cambridge.org/9780521568319}}

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