Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
- diplomat
- dreams
- nightmare
- upper class
- date
- drug trafficking
- guest
- bishop
- restaurant
- surreal
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Fernando Rey
Don Rafael
Delphine Seyrig
Simone Thévenot
Paul Frankeur
François Thévenot
Stéphane Audran
Alice Sénéchal
- Bulle Ogier — Florence
- Jean-Pierre Cassel — Henri Sénéchal
- Julien Bertheau — Monsignor Dufour
- Claude Piéplu — Colonel
- Michel Piccoli — Interior Minister
- François Maistre — Inspector Delecluze
- Pierre Maguelon — Police Sergeant
- Maxence Mailfort — Sergeant Recounting Dream
- Milena Vukotić — Ines
- Maria Gabriella Maione — Guerrilla
- Muni — Peasant
- Directed
- Luis Buñuel
- Written
- Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 934 ratings
- Studio
- Greenwich Film Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
