Diabolically Yours 1967  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller / Drama
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Sergio Fantoni, Peter Mosbacher, Claude Pieplu, Guy Stranger, Georges Montant, Renate Birgo
Three weeks after his car crash, Pierre (Alain Delon) awakens from his coma as an amnesiac who has been taken to his French estate and is being nursed by his wife Christiane (Senta Berger), family doctor Freddie (Sergio Fantoni), and Chinese servant Kim (Peter Mosbacher). As Pierre strives to regain his memory, his world becomes more and more confusing, and dangers lurk as his memory begins to clear.
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 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972  PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Delphine Seyrig, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli, Bernard Musson, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic, Maria Gabriella Maione, Claude Pieplu
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is a satirical look at the bourgeoisie following the activities of upper-middle-class friends. Don Raphael (Fernando Rey), Francois Thevenot (Paul Frankeur), Simone (Delphine Seyrig), Florence (Bulle Ogier), Henri Senechal (Jean-Pierre Cassel), and Alice (Stephane Audran) try, again and again, to spend an evening together. But, no matter how many times they try, and fail, to have dinner together, their plans are frustrated by events over which they have no control. The obstacles are bizarre–ranging from a mixed- up date for the dinner, to army maneuvers, to a dead body, to a stage play in which they are characters. Good entertainment.
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 The Phantom of Liberty 1974  R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Specter of Freedom
Director: Luis Bunuel
Cast: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Milena Vukotic, Michael Lonsdale, Anne-Marie Deschott, Michel Piccoli, Claude Pieplu, Paul Frankeur, Julien Bertheau, Adolfo Celi
Talk about bizarre! At age 75, Luis Bunuel still had the knack for innovative filmmaking. This surrealistic comedy is a collection of barely related sketches that include a group of patriots in the Napoleonic era egging on a firing squad to shoot them, a missing girl helping police fill out a missing person report on her, and the well-known scene of an elegantly dressed group sitting on toilets around a dinner table until hunger strikes, when they retire to stalls in a separate room to eat. And that's just a sample.
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Wedding in Blood 1973 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Stephane Audran, Clotilde Joano, Eliana De Santis, Claude Pieplu, Daniel Lecourtois, Ermanno Casanova, Pippo Merisi, Francois Robert, Henri Berger
Deputy Mayor Pierre's (Michel Piccoli) wife is sickly, and Paul starts an affair with the mayor's wife (Stephane Audran). The mayor finds out about the affair, Pierre's wife dies, and the mystery begins.
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| 1. Diabolically Yours (1967)
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
3. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
aka: The Specter of Freedom
4. Wedding in Blood (1973)
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