The Phantom of Liberty

Bunuel's most strict surrealist film since L'age Dor is an amalgamation of strange backwards ideas flowing into one another. The little girl sequence is brilliant, as is the 'pervert' in the park how shows little kids 'obscene' pictures of.....famous national landmarks. "Just disgusting", a child's parent comments. This is the kind of film where a group of celebut monks join a card game, only to find themselves in the midst of kinky couple's bondage fetish. A man who's just been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer is offered a cigarette by his doctor! And the piece de la resistance, families and friends defacating in public, only to leave the table to secretly cower in little private rooms where they can guiltily eat with no one watching. Inspiring to no end! This film made me go out and make my own surrealist video, even going to the trouble of shooting in the freezing cold and getting a severed pig's head for one scene. It's all for the sake of surrealist art!