A dreamlike, surrealistic film that playfully looks at politics, religion and sex. The film offers tantalizing fragments of narrative that it explores briefly and then leaves behind: a child accepts some strange photographs from an unsavory character in a playground -- only the images aren't quite what one would expect; a nurse spends the night at an inn and meets some very bizarre priests; a sniper ascends a glistening new French skyscraper and shoots at the crowds below, only to become a celebrity, not a pariah; and tearful parents beg the police to find their missing child -- who's beside them the whole time insisting she's not lost. Bunuel attacks society's false pretensions to freedom, and its distorted ideas of liberty and religion in this crazy, off- beat comedy that goes from high wit to groundling guffaws.

"...This typically mischievous late-Bunuel pic boasts one of his most celebrated sequences..." - Geoffrey, Macnab (Sight And Sound Critic), Sight and Sound, 07/01/2001

"[I]t's absurdly hilarious, stingingly satirical, and sometimes surprisingly upsetting in its surreality." - Glenn, Kenny (Premiere/Entertainment Weekly Critic), Premiere, 07/01/2005

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Product Title:	The Phantom of Liberty (Criterion Collection) (US Version) The Phantom of Liberty (Criterion Collection) (US Version) The Phantom of Liberty (Criterion Collection) (US Version) The Phantom of Liberty (Criterion Collection) (US Version) The Phantom of Liberty (Criterion Collection) (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Jean-Claude Brialy (Actor) \| Monica Vitti (Actor) \| Michel Piccoli (Actor) \| Adriana Asti (Actor) Jean-Claude Brialy (Actor) \| Monica Vitti (Actor) \| Michel Piccoli (Actor) \| Adriana Asti (Actor) Jean-Claude Brialy (Actor) \| Monica Vitti (Actor) \| Michel Piccoli (Actor) \| Adriana Asti (Actor) Ｊｅａｎ－ＣｌａｕｄｅＢｒｉａｌｙ (Actor) \| Monica Vitti (Actor) \| Michel Piccoli (Actor) \| Adriana Asti (Actor) Jean-Claude Brialy (Actor) \| Monica Vitti (Actor) \| Michel Piccoli (Actor) \| Adriana Asti (Actor)
Director:	Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel
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Release Date:	2005-05-24
UPC Code:	037429207628
Language:	French
Subtitles:	English
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Aspect Ratio:	Letterboxed
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	Not Rated
Publisher:	Criterion Collection
Package Weight:	154 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004378340

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Director: Luis Buñuel

DVD Features:
Notes: This Criterion release is a new restored high-definition transfer.

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.66
Audio:
Dolby Mono - French
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Introduction By Jean Claude Carriere
Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
Additional Products:
32 - Page Booklet Featuring A New Essay By Critic Gary Indiana.

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