THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY
by Luis Buñuel
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?
international title: | The Phantom of Liberty |
original title: | Le fantôme de la liberté |
country: | France, Italy |
year: | 1974 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Luis Buñuel |
film run: | 104' |
release date: | FR 11/09/1974, SE 28/10/1974, DK 01/11/1974, BE 22/11/1974, PT 22/11/1974, IT 23/11/1974, FI 27/12/1974, DE 14/02/1975, UK 03/1975, ES 19/04/1975, PL 09/1976, HU 27/09/1979, GR 26/08/2010, LT 04/11/2020 |
screenplay: | Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière |
cast: | Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli |
cinematography by: | Edmond Richard |
film editing: | Hélène Plemiannikov |
art director: | Pierre Guffroy |
costumes designer: | Jacqueline Guyot |
producer: | Serge Silberman |
executive producer: | Ulrich Picard |