The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
7.7/10
104 min
1974
fr
Action
Comedy
Synopsis
As unusual, eccentric, and bizarre vignettes of mundane and seemingly innocuous conventions of our social and private lives success one another, somehow, Napoléon Bonaparte's troops, earthly monks, dangerous snipers, and the peculiar disappearance of a beloved one metamorphose into banal instances of our daily existence. With this in mind, under those surreal circumstances, the abnormal becomes normal, the obvious transforms into something unclear or even invisible, and the extraordinary transfigures into ordinary. But, are things always black and white? How real is the haunting spectre of liberty?—Nick Riganas
Cast
Monica Vitti as Mme Foucaud / Mrs. Foucauld Luis Buñuel as Un condamné à mort Michael Lonsdale as Le chapelier / Hatter Michel Piccoli as Le second préfet de police / Second Prefect
