The Phantom of Liberty

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$6,749

As unusual, eccentric, and bizarre vignettes of mundane and seemingly innocuous conventions of our social and private lives success one another, somehow, Napoléon Bonaparte's troops, earthly monks, dangerous snipers, and the peculiar disappearance of a beloved one metamorphose into banal instances of our daily existence. With this in mind, under those surreal circumstances, the abnormal becomes normal, the obvious transforms into something unclear or even invisible, and the extraordinary transfigures into ordinary. But, are things always black and white? How real is the haunting spectre of liberty?

🏆 2 wins

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli

Released

27 October 1974

Runtime

1h 44m

Certificate

R

IMDb rating

7.8 / 10

Votes

17,502

Rotten Tomatoes

85%

Box office

$6,172

Edition

Base