Saturday, April 9, 2011

Le Fantôme de la Liberté



Last week I went to a viewing of Luis Bunuel's 'Le Fantôme de la Liberté' (1974) at Rotabs and hosted by exhibiting artist Marc Müller.

Bunuel's movie couldn't be more fitting to be included in the list of art on this blog. The movie, a free-form script of seemingly unconnected surrealist scenes, is an absurd portrayal (or criticism) of (reversed) bourgeois conventions.



Most notably: Monks boozing and playing poker, lavatories as dinner table seats, picture postcards regarded as pornographic, etc.

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