Le fantôme de la liberté

"Luis Bunuel's kinkiest comedy."

Oct 27 1974 R 1h 44m
Comedy

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 situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

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Plot

As unusual, eccentric, and bizarre vignettes of mundane and seemingly innocuous conventions of our social and private lives success one another, somehow, Napoléon Bonaparte's troops, earthly monks, dangerous snipers, and the peculiar disappearance of a beloved one metamorphose into banal instances of our daily existence. With this in mind, under those surreal circumstances, the abnormal becomes normal, the obvious transforms into something unclear or even invisible, and the extraordinary transfigures into ordinary. But, are things always black and white? How real is the haunting spectre of liberty?

Written by

Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière

Directed by

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli

Crew

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Production Countries

Italy, France

Production Companies

Greenwich Film Production

Languages

Français

Awards

2 wins

Trailers
FANTOME DE LA LIBERTE TRAILER
The Phantom of Liberty (1974) ORIGINAL TRAILER
Scores
# of Votes
17,749
Average Rating
7.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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