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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: The Japanese Art

Marie Kondo

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This is a beautiful hardback edition of Marie Kondo's classic book, complete with a wrap-around red...

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Most organizations are stuck in a rut. On one hand, they understand all the good things that will...

500 Soup Recipes: An Unbeatable Collection Including Chunky Winter Warmers, Oriental Broths, Spicy Fish Chowders and Hundreds of Classic, Clear, Chilled, Creamy, Meat, Bean and Vegetable Soups

Bridget Jones

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This book contains all the soups you will ever need in one essential, easy-reference guide. The...

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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

Gretchen Bakke

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A revelatory look at our national power grid--how it developed, its current flaws, and how it must...

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Karl Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger

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Kirk Bage (1775 KP) rated The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) in Movies

Jan 28, 2021

The self confessed king of cinema surrealism, Luis Buñuel has 15 feature films listed as 7.5 or higher on IMDb, proving his life’s work is more loved and respected as you might think. This title was the only one I had really heard of being talked about by serious film folk that stuck in my mind, so it was as good a place as any to start with. It is an odd beast that I had a little trouble getting onboard with. It feels entirely 70s and kitsch, and on the surface feels at times little better than The Confessions of a Window Cleaner, or some such bawdy farce. To say it is a comedy is to take comedy to mean intellectual absurdism that pokes fun at the conventions and habits that lurk inside humanity, and the sophistication that masks our base instincts and flaws. I got the “joke”, it just all feels very dated now.

The cast have a lot of fun in the dreamlike landscape of manners and appetites, and the symbolism that abounds is indeed quite clever and arch if you want to analyse it. What I did like is how it feels increasingly like an actual dream, where things done and said begin to lose true meaning, and events and places merge into one flow of madness. You can definitely see a lot of ideas here that have been borrowed by other films since, and I appreciate what it tries to do, but ultimately this one left me a little cold. It has a pompous and smug air about it that is not for me, although I totally understand why it is held in high regard. I will probably never choose to watch it again.