This downloadable edition presents the complete screenplay of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) by Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, one of the most celebrated films in Buñuel’s career and winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The script reveals the intricate structure behind Buñuel’s brilliantly absurd narrative, in which a group of bourgeois friends repeatedly attempt—yet mysteriously fail—to share a simple dinner. Through a chain of dreams, interruptions, and surreal digressions, Buñuel exposes the fragile rituals and quiet hypocrisies of polite society.
This edition includes the original screenplay facsimile alongside a full English translation, allowing readers to experience the film both as a historical document and as a living piece of cinematic literature. An essential resource for scholars, filmmakers, and admirers of Buñuel’s surrealist imagination, it offers a rare window into the creative process behind one of the most influential films of modern cinema.