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The Phantom Of Liberty [VHS] [1974]

VHS ~ Jean-Claude Brialy
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti, Adriana Asti
  • Directors: Luis Buñuel
  • Writers: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Producers: Serge Silberman, Ulrich Picard
  • Format: PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language French
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • VHS Release Date: 28 May 2001
  • Run Time: 99 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005B5JX
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,353 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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A series of sketches moving through time targeting sex, religion and politics; a cancer patient is offered a cigarette by a doctor, and a lost girl is taken to the police station by her parents who file a 'missing' report. French dialogue with subtitles.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A minor Bunuel masterpiece, 5 Jun 2003
By Penguin Egg (London, England) - See all my reviews
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The Phantom of Liberty is made up of a series of surrealist vignettes held together by the loosest of narrative structures - Think of a Monty Python episode without the laughter-track. The opening scene has prisoners facing a firing squad, defiantly clenching their raised fists, and shouting, "Down with freedom" and "Long live chains." This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the film. In another memorable scene, guests sit down at the dining table, but instead of chairs, they sit on toilets. To talk about food at the table is the height of vulgarity. There are other scenes just as good. This film may sound arty-farty, but it works and works brilliantly, and in no small part due to Luis Bunuel, who directs with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of effect. Don't let the surrealist tag put you off. This film is fun and was meant to be so. This may not be quite up there with the rest of Bunuel's classics : Belle De Jour, Simon of the Desert, or The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, with which The Phantom of Liberty has something in common; but it is still a minor masterpiece and will delight and baffle in equal measure.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the best Bunuel film ever, 18 April 2001
This is Bunuel at his most playful and subversive. It is the hidden gem amongst his works. I don't understand why it isn't more well-known. It is the film Discreet Charm of the Bourgouisie would have been if it hadn't been so Hollywood-ised. 'Phantom of Liberty' remains true to the original political ideals of surrealism.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Assorted tales of misuse of Liberty, 9 Jun 2005
By Jazzisticus (Lisbon,Portugal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Phantom of Liberty [DVD] [1974] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Some people find it difficult to understant this movie, because it has no plot. Others think it is funny..
It is a series of "Vignetes" linked by a very tiny idea thread. The key to understand it is Goya's painting "El 3 de Mayo 1808 - Las executiones" about the executions of Spaniards in Toledo. Someone shouts "Vivan las cadenas" (hail to the chains). Bunuel himself plays a friar that faces the firing squad and dies. The French soldiers where supposed to bring freedom to the enchained Spanish people.
The same painting appears at the Police Inspector's office when the parents go there to report the missing daughter that is right there answering the Inspector's questions..
Later on, this same inspector arrests one "Prefet de Police" that went to the Cemitery and tried to open the coffin of his dead sister..A second "Prefect de Police" appears (played by Michel Picolli). He desmisses the inspector and both "Prefets", after drinking a scotch, go happily to the zoo to disperse a protest. We do not see the protesters, but hear the sounds of shots and cries of victims. Just before the "prefects" comment: "if some animals are killed, too bad for them..."

"Bunuel was everything, but arbitrary.." says (in French) Jean-Claude Carriere in a "Proposito de Bunuel" a documentary that accompanies the Criterion DVD of "Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie".
I say Bunuel was never "funny, and in this movie he is crystal clear. Freedom only brings misery to mankind, except to a priviledged few who make stupid use if it...

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