{"id":30179,"date":"2026-06-02T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30179"},"modified":"2026-06-03T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:17:33","slug":"a-review-of-the-1972-classic-film-the-discreet-charm-of-the-bourgeoisie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=30179","title":{"rendered":"A review of the 1972 classic film &#8220;The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie&#8221;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An odd title for a very odd film, but then this French-language work was co-written and directed by the Mexican surrealist Luis Bu\u00f1uel. Three upper middle-class couples try repeatedly to sit down for a meal together, only to be frustrated by an absurd number and nature of interruptions. Out of such seemingly quotidian material, Bu\u00f1uel fashions a satire on the selfishness and vacuous nature of the ruling class. Three of the four dreams in the loose narrative are inspired by Bu\u00f1uel&#8217;s own nocturnal experiences. The work won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, but it will not be to everyone&#8217;s taste and I found it rather irritating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An odd title for a very odd film, but then this French-language work was co-written and directed by the Mexican surrealist Luis Bu\u00f1uel. Three upper middle-class couples try repeatedly to sit down for a meal together, only to be frustrated by an absurd number and nature of interruptions. Out of such seemingly quotidian material, Bu\u00f1uel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30182,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30179\/revisions\/30182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}