The Phantom of Liberty
Luis Buñuel’s vision of the inherent absurdity of human social rituals reaches its taboo-annihilating extreme in what may be his most morally subversive and formally audacious work. Zigzagging across time and space, from the Napoleonic era to the present day, The Phantom of Liberty unfolds as a picaresque, its characters traveling between tableaux in a series of Dadaist non sequiturs. Unbound by the laws of narrative logic, Buñuel lets his surrealist’s id run riot in an exuberant revolt against bourgeois rationality that seems telegraphed directly from his unconscious to the screen.
Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
- Analysis of the film from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans
- Episode of the French television series Pour le cinéma from 1974 featuring actors Michel Piccoli and Jean-Claude Brialy
- Episode of the French television program Le dernier des cinq from 1974 featuring Brialy
- Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Luis Buñuel on five of the director’s final seven films
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
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Collector's Set
Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
- Analysis of the film from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans
- Episode of the French television series Pour le cinéma from 1974 featuring actors Michel Piccoli and Jean-Claude Brialy
- Episode of the French television program Le dernier des cinq from 1974 featuring Brialy
- Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Luis Buñuel on five of the director’s final seven films
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
Cast
- Adriana Asti
- Sister of the first police commissioner/Lady in black
- Julien Bertheau
- First police commissioner
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- M. Foucauld
- Adolfo Celi
- M. Legendre’s physician
- Paul Frankeur
- Innkeeper
- Michel Lonsdale
- Hatter
- Pierre Maguelon
- Policeman
- François Maistre
- Police academy instructor
- Michel Piccoli
- Second police commissioner
- Hélène Perdrière
- Old aunt
- Claude Piéplu
- Chief of police
- Jean Rochefort
- M. Legendre
- Bernard Verley
- French Army captain
- Milena Vukotic
- Nurse
- Monica Vitti
- Mme Foucauld
- Anne-Marie Deschott
- Mlle Rosenblum
- Pierre Lary
- The sniper
- Muni
- The Foucaulds’ nursemaid
Credits
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Screenplay
- Luis Buñuel
- Screenplay
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Editor
- Hélène Plemiannikov
- Production design
- Pierre Guffroy
- Director of photography
- Edmond Richard
- Production manager
- Ully Pickard
- Producer
- Serge Silberman
- Assistant directors
- Jacques Frankel
- Assistant directors
- Pierre Lary
- Sound
- Guy Villette
- Costume design
- Jacqueline Guyot
- Makeup
- Monique Archambault
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