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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

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