this is my fav track off the new vampire weeekend album :)

What can I say; I think I’ve found a new favourite director after a single film.

Buñuel has the same high regard for both his characters and audience alike. Like a cat with a mouse, he toys with them; tosses them up in the air, bats them about a while, then sits back and watches them wobble and stumble about; all the time his tail gingerly flicking. Just when you think you have your bearings; and escape into a lush field of meaning is within grasp; he pounces again.

I’ve read that Buñuel was an accomplished hypnotist in his youth, and that he believed that the movies were a form of hypnotism. I believe it; I’m still in a trance.

90/100

A winding, inescapable nightmare separated by emptiness. If this wasn't so harshly hilarious it would be impossible to take in, mainly because entitlement doesn't seem like a topic to showcase without a certain measure of levity. Its structure, beginning like an awkward play of misunderstandings, soon dissolves into a satirical depiction of grating realities, utilizing the energy of chaos as a contrast between the consistently still and contained imagery. Even the most surrealistic incident within this dreamlike series of events carries an unflinching eye, viewing all the strange and despicable behavior like a curious animal; wide-eyed and casually attentive.

Don't you hate it when restaurants run out of water?

I really thought “French Airplane” (my takeaway) was the wrong takeaway. But then I looked up every other review/critique/essay (Ebert, Sciretta etc.) and found they had all written the exact same: French Airplane!

no one weaves a story better than a surrealist and dear me, how this flows erratically and funnier and funnier with every turn and it's bigger and bigger and then

Just added about 10 people to my list of people to rob

beautifully satire film.
perfectly highlights the entitlement and visions of grandeur within the sextet and society - besides that, the dinner-that-never-happens storyline illustrates the hidden secrets of the bourgeoisie in revealing the politics and characteristics of said sextet; incredibly done satire!

This movie was charming lmao

Shockingly ahead of its time.

Una sátira tan rara, loca, genial, así como muy surrealista la que hace Buñuel sobre la burguesía. Me gusta porque en general muestra una y otra vez costumbres, comportamientos y formas de vida de manera en que todo parece ridículo. Tantos excesos, tanta superficialidad, mostradas desde un angulo por demás absurdo. Tanto las situaciones como los personajes llevan ese tono satírico, Buñuel los lleva incluso hasta lo onírico, dejando al espectador mareado y tan confundido, así como despertaban de sus pesadillas cada uno de los miembros de esta extraña pero genial comedia.

i remember attempting to watch this a while back but immediately falling asleep after like a half hour. so here we go again! sometimes i’m surprised at how slow this film is, other times i’m not really sure what the hell is going on. but i kind of feel like that’s the point? but i appreciate its weirdness a lot and even when i didn’t fully understand the satire or the story i always liked the flow of it. need to see this again before even attempting to dissect this but i still enjoyed it.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.