He isn't looking for the latest Hollywood blockbuster or a hit HBO series. Mateo is in the mood for something sophisticated. He wants to feel cultured. He wants to watch Luis Buñuel’s surrealist masterpiece, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie .
Además, la película es una reflexión sobre la condición humana y la búsqueda de sentido en la vida. Los personajes de la película están atrapados en una vida vacía y superficial, y no pueden encontrar sentido en su existencia.
Luis Buñuel, the Spanish master of Surrealism, returned to his satirical roots with The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie , a film that functions as a stinging indictment of the ruling class. While Buñuel’s earlier works, such as L’Age d’Or , attacked the church and state with violent imagery, The Discreet Charm utilizes a more subtle, though no less scathing, approach. The film follows a group of six bourgeois friends—Ambassador Rafael Acosta, the Sénéchals, and the Thévenots—as they attempt, and repeatedly fail, to have dinner together. Through a dream-within-a-dream structure, Buñuel strips away the veneer of politeness to reveal the absurdity governing social rituals.