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"The Phantom of Liberty" is a tour de force, a triumph by a director confronting almost impossible complications and contradictions and mastering them. It's very funny, all right, but remember: With Buñuel, you only laugh when it hurts.
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The Phantom of Liberty Reviews. The domesticated surrealism of this picture has no sting, no bite, and no aftereffect. At most, it's amusing, at worst, it's tedious. Full Review | Sep 21,...
85% Tomatometer 26 Reviews 91% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings This Surrealist Spanish film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life...
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- Luis Buñuel
- R
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- Synopsis
- Picture 7/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 7/10
- Closing
Luis Buñuel’s vision of the inherent absurdity of human social rituals reaches its taboo-annihilating extreme in what may be his most morally subversive and formally audacious work. Zigzagging across time and space, from the Napoleonic era to the present day, The Phantom of Libertyunfolds as a picaresque, its main character traveling between tablea...
Luis Buñuel’s The Phantom of Liberty receives a Blu-ray upgrade from The Criterion Collection, the film presented on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. The disc is available exclusively in the box set Three Films by Luis Buñuel. Like The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (also found in the set), Criterion appears to be reusin...
The film’s French monaural soundtrack is presented here in lossless PCM. Nothing stands out really: dialogue and effects sound clear, but it’s all very one-note and flat. Damage isn’t an issue, though, and the track is clean.
Criterion’s DVD was an enormous disappointment, only containing one substantial supplement outside of the film’s trailer (which is also found here), which has been ported over: an interview with writer Jean-Claude Carrierethat didn’t even run 5-minutes, with a minute of it devoted to clips from the film. Taken from a longer interview (the bulk of w...
The film could still use a new scan and restoration, and I’m still a bit shocked it hasn’t received one. At the very least, the Blu-ray does offer a better presentation over Criterion’s disappointing DVD edition while also providing more supplemental material. BUY AT:
Sep 13, 2003 · Like Discreet Charm, the plot-free Phantom of Liberty is a patchwork of comedic sketches and sight gags through which Buñuel ravages a complacent European culture and the various sexual hang-ups and historical and cultural disconnects of its inhabitants.
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Details. Showing 3 Critic Reviews. 100. Christian Science Monitor. Made near the end of Buñuel's career, it's not his greatest movie, but it contains some of his most memorable moments. Read More. By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW. 80. TV Guide Magazine.
