Luis Buñuel's pleasant reminder that, at age 72, he is still on the watch. If the student revolutionaries seem a bit stiff and out of place, the drug-smuggling South American ambassador and the Catholic Bishop and the loyal maid and the various dreamers seem extremely comfy. The gags are spun out with considerable languor and redundancy, and they mostly tire out before the finish. But it's all quite involving for Buñuelian insiders; for others it may be inconsequential or incomprehensible. Very suave, very well-heeled, very bourgeois even. The cast, very fashionable, includes Fernando Rey, Stephane Audran, Bulle Ogier, Delphine Seyrig, and best of the bunch, Paul Frankeur. (1972) — Duncan Shepherd
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