The Phantom of Liberty / Le fantôme de la liberté (1974) [Criterion Collection]

Director: Luis Buñuel (as Luis Bunuel)
Writers: Luis Buñuel (scenario) (as Luis Bunuel), Jean-Claude Carrière (collaboration)
Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli

Luis Buñuel’s vision of the inherent absurdity of human social rituals reaches its taboo-annihilating extreme in what may be his most morally subversive and formally audacious work. Zigzagging across time and space, from the Napoleonic era to the present day, The Phantom of Liberty unfolds as a picaresque, its main character traveling between tableaux in a series of Dadaist non sequiturs. Unbound by the laws of narrative logic, Buñuel lets his surrealist’s id run riot in an exuberant revolt against bourgeois rationality that seems telegraphed directly from his unconscious to the screen.

Extras:
- Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
- Analysis of the film from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans
- Episode of the French television series Pour le cinéma from 1974 featuring actors Michel Piccoli and Jean-Claude Brialy
- Episode of the French television program Le dernier des cinq from 1974 featuring Brialy
- Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Luis Buñuel on five of the director's final seven films
- Trailere




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