The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie first published by Little White Lies, as entry 156 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie opens with the ambassador Rafael Acosta (Fernando Rey), his colleague François Thévenot (Paul Frankeur), François’ wife Simone (Delphine Seyrig) and younger sister Florence (Bulle Ogier) being driven…
Review first published by LWLies Here’s a riddle: if you took the horror out of The Shining (1980) and Triangle (2009), the comedy out of Groundhog Day (1993), the science-fiction out of Inception (2010) and Source Code (2011), or the stop-motion grotesquerie out of The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2005), what would be left? The answer is Last Year in Marienbad (L’année dernière à Marienbad),…