The Phantom of Liberty: connecting his absurdist episodes with the most circumstantial elements, Luis Buñuel builds his satirical film into a constant attack on all sorts of French institutions (the dominant class, the Church, the State, police). The comedy is the cinematic equivalent of an easily distracted speaker talking off-the-cuff for a couple of hours, telling stories filled with incomplete anecdotes, asides, and callbacks; it is entertaining if constantly mind-boggling. It is a huge cast, filled with recognizable faces (Monica Vitti, Adriana Asti, Jean Rochefort, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Michael Lonsdale, to name a few), and they are all game. Editor Hélène Plemiannikov moves from one story to the other seamlessly, keeping the film with an easy and pleasurable rhythm; cinematographer Edmond Richard moves his camera beautifully and elegantly.