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The Phantom of Liberty
Directed by
Luis Buñuel
R
1974
1h 44m
[Comedy](/on-demand/category/comedy), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
7.7
85%
91%
7.5
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A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
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Cast of The Phantom of Liberty
Jean-Claude Brialy
Mr. Foucault
Adriana Asti
The Lady in Black, the Sister of the First Prefect
Milena Vukotić
The Nurse
Monica Vitti
Mrs. Foucault
Jean Rochefort
Mr. Legendre
Michel Piccoli
The Second Police Prefect
Adolfo Celi
The Doctor
Claude Piéplu
The Commissioner
Paul Frankeur
The Innkeeper
Pierre Maguelon
The Policeman
François Maistre
The Professor
Marie-France Pisier
Mrs. Calmette
Michael Lonsdale
The Hatter
Paul Le Person
Father Gabriel
Julien Bertheau
The First Police Prefect
Maxence Mailfort
The Lieutenant of the Dragoons
Hélène Perdrière
The Aunt
Pierre-François Pistorio
The Nephew
Pascale Audret
Mrs. Legendre
Anne-Marie Deschodt
Edith Rosenblum
The Phantom of Liberty Ratings & Reviews
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The domesticated surrealism of this picture has no sting, no bite, and no aftereffect. At most, it's amusing, at worst, it's tedious.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
Episodic assemblies of absurdist jokes...
Wall Street Journal
Joy Gould Boyum
Superb and marvelously witty.
Esquire Magazine
John Simon
Much that has been hailed as Buñuel's profundity is merely self-purgation: catharsis for himself rather than for his audience. Though this may be the commonest motive for artistic creation, it is, by itself, insufficient.
Los Angeles Free Press
LAFP Staff
The result is funny, frustrating and thought-provoking.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Made near the end of Buñuel's career, it's not his greatest movie, but it contains some of his most memorable moments.
Film Comment Magazine
Richard Roud
Beneath its lucid exterior, beneath its classical style, The Spectre of Liberty is one of those poetic works: a coherent enigma, inexhaustibly prismatic.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
Bunuel's most uninhibited venture though audacious and satisfying my Bunuel pangs, lacks a bite or enough charm to appeal to the masses.
TV Guide
Michael Scheinfeld
An uproarious summary of Luis Bunuel's surrealistic concerns in a collection of anecdotes starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Piccoli, and Monica Vitti.
Filmcritic.com
Jake Euker
as illusory as a dream about a mailman and as real as the letter you find in your hand
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
The Phantom of Liberty moves with great confidence and comfort. Odd that such a wicked film should feel comfortable, but there you have it. That's Bunuel.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
one of Buñuel's most narratively unconventional films, stringing together a series of loosely connected vignettes that focus on various illogical situations and absurdities.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A tour de force, a triumph by a director confronting almost impossible complications and contradictions and mastering them. It's very funny, all right, but remember: With Buuel, you only laugh when it hurts.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The physical production is stunning to look at. The cast is large, first-rate, but the presence that dazzles us is that of the Old Master, just off screen, mercilessly testing our senses of sanity and humor.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
This heady masterwork isn't particularly easy to decipher, but it's best approached as the literal comedy of manners Buuel intends it to be.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Albeit scattershot, Phantom does cohere as a satire of keeping up appearances in which everything is as it appears.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The challenging lack of a narrative center doesn't prevent this film from having a great deal to say about the modern world and its ambivalent grasp of freedom.
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