

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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7.4/10
951 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $800K
- Box office
- $103.2K
- Language
- French
- diplomat
- dreams
- nightmare
- upper class
- date
- drug trafficking
- guest
- bishop
- restaurant
- surreal
- bourgeoisie
- satire
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PG15 Sept 1972
- Theatrical (limited)4K restoration; New York City, NY24 Jun 2022
FranceFR
- TheatricalTPVisa CNC 3991015 Sept 1972
GermanyDE
- Physical1250th Anniversary Edition (4K Ultra HD+Blu-ray)23 Jun 2022
IrelandIE
- Theatrical153 Aug 1973
NetherlandsNL
- Physical12DVD17 Sept 2009
PolandPL
- Theatrical188 Dec 1975
RomaniaRO
- PremiereTransilvania International Film Festival12 Jun 2026
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie was released on 15 September 1972.
Audience reviews
2- T10/10
talisencrw
8/15/2016
This came in the outstanding 10-DVD boxed set 'Rialto Pictures: 10 Years', one of the finest things I've bought from The Criterion Collection (and a great deal too, one I'd heartily endorse). I had to wait an entire day, after watching the dreadful 'Disaster Movie', to get the acrid taste out of my mouth to watch this one, by my fourth favourite director ever ('Viridiana' is still probably my favourite of his, tho…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
9/19/2022
It's quite a difficult film to review this, as it essentially has no real plot and very little structure. It is a series of dream sequences following a group of friends - each with some form of skeleton in their closet - as they try to meet for a dinner that repeatedly gets aborted. Fernando Rey is on good form as the Ambassador from the Republic of "Miranda" - a man living in fear for his life from revolutionaries a…
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