More than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un Chien Andalou, Luis Buñuel capped his career with three final provocations in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its endgame. -- adapted from back of container. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: An upper-middle class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events...

In the late nineteenth century King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, 'I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.' The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants, and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of these characters, many of whom pass through a luxury hotel in the middle...

"In Luis Buñuel's deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-middle-class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined, including terrorist attacks, military manoeuvers, and ghostly apparitions. Stringing together a discontinuous, digressive series of absurdits set pieces, Buñuel and his screenwriting partner Jean-Claude Carrière send a cast of Europeanfilm...