(aka 'Il Fantasma della libertà' or 'The Phantom of Liberty' or 'The Specter of Freedom')
Italy / France 1974
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. Featuring an elegant soirée with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of nonsequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career––from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
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Theatrical Release: September 11th, 1974
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DVD Review: Criterion - Region 1 - NTSC
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| Runtime | 1:43:56 | ||||||||||||||||
| Video | 1.66:1
Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 8.50 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
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| Audio | French (Dolby Digital 2.0) | ||||||||||||||||
| Subtitles | English, None | ||||||||||||||||
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Edition Details: • Video
introduction by screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (4:40) |
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A perfect image from
Criterion. Slightly muted colors with excellent contrast. Subtitles are
excellent as is the original audio. Not much "critiquing' to do with
this Criterion disc. It has a nice, short intro by Jean-Claude
Carrière, a full length trailer
and an extensive booklet with a profound essay and a transcribed
conversation with Bunuel. All in all only a commentary is absent, but
a perfect DVD again from Criterion.
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My Last Sigh by Luis Bunuel, Abigail Israel |
Buñuel: 100 Years: It's Dangerous to Look Inside by Enrique Camacho |
An Unspeakable Betrayal:
Selected Writings of Luis Bunuel by Jean-Claude Carriere |
Bunuel by John Baxter |
Luis Bunuel : New Readings by Peter William Evans |
The Discreet Art of Luis Bunuel: A
Reading of His Films by Gwynne Edwards |
The Films of Luis
Bunuel: Subjectivity and Desire (Oxford Hispanic
Studies) by Peter William Evans " |
Buñuel's The
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Cambridge Film
Handbooks) by Marsha Kinder |
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