Research and Publication Centre (RPC) in collaboration with Filmbar (on Instagram) announces the screening of the seventh film in its Season of World Cinema: Luis Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972).
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satirical masterpiece, an upper middle-class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined, including terrorist attacks, military manoeuvres, and ghostly apparitions. Stringing together a discontinuous, digressive series of absurdist set pieces, Buñuel and his screenwriting partner Jean-Claude Carrière send a cast of European film greats — including Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Bulle Ogier — through a maze of desire deferred, frustrated and interrupted. The Oscar-winning pinnacle of Buñuel’s late career ascent as a feted maestro of the international art house, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is also one of his most gleefully radical assaults on the values of the ruling class.
Timing: Friday, February 10, 2023, 5:30 pm at Research and Publication Centre (RPC), 2nd floor, 65 Main Boulevard Gulberg, Lahore (next to Standard Chartered Bank, above Indesign showroom).
Rashed Rahman
Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)
Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook)
RPC and Filmbar's Season of World Cinema is intended to bring to Pakistani audiences films that are otherwise not available in Pakistan. Screenings are normally held every Friday, 5:30 pm. Entry is free. Tea is served after the show. All friends are welcome.
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