The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Comedy • 1h 40m
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Stéphane Audran, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Julien Bertheau, Claude Piéplu, Michel Piccoli, François Maistre, Pierre Maguelon, Maxence Mailfort, Milena Vukotić, Maria Gabriella Maione, Muni, Georges Douking, Christian Baltauss, Bernard Musson, Jacques Rispal, Robert Le Béal, Robert Benoît, Anne-Marie Deschodt, Ellen Bahl, Jean-Michel Dhermay, Jean Degrave, Sébastien Floche, Claude Jaeger, Pierre Lary, Alix Mahieux, Robert Party, Amparo Soler Leal, Madeleine Bouchez, Roger Caccia, Olivier Bauchet, François Guilloteau, Jean-Claude Jarry, Jean Revel, Diane Vernon
Best English-friendly & video release
StudioCanal has 4k, good encode, accuracy of the color grading is debatable vs Criterion
Updated 10 months ago
UHD tiers
good encode, accuracy of the color grading is debatable
About the film
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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- 2026: #1722025: #1762024: #1722023: #1782022: #178
Director: Luis Buñuel
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Director: Luis Buñuel
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 50th Anniversary Blu-ray uses a newer 4k scan than Criterion Blu-ray or older StudioCanal Blu-ray see https://caps-a-holic.com/c_list.php?c=4373
Sources: DVDBeaver (opens in a new tab)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · filmlinc.org (opens in a new tab)
4k transfer, no disc https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2019/films/lage-dor/
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion and StudioCanal very similar
Director: John Huston
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eureka Blu-ray > StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Older DVD or LaserDisc probably even better
All blu-ray releases so far is from the 2010 scan.
Director: Michael Cimino
2020 Shout! Factory 4K
2020 Shout! Factory 4K slightly better than StudioCanal in HDR10. Similar in DV
35mm mix: 1991 Universal LaserDisc
70mm mix: StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray
35mm mix: 1991 Universal LaserDisc marginally better than StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is downmix.
70mm mix: StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray is remix.
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Criterion/StudioCanal Blu-ray > BFI. New restoration unreleased.
Old R2 DVD 1.0
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
Director: Jacques Tati
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
2014 StudioCanal Blu-ray
The UHD is slightly cropped in.
Director: Paul King
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray minimal picture upgrade (2K upscale)
StudioCanal UK 4K Blu-ray has good new Atmos mix
More Comedy on Blu-ray
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: William Dieterle
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
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