Three Films By Luis Bunuel (Blu-ray)

More than four decades after he took a razorblade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch-iconoclast Luis Buuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocationsThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desirein which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire and his own frequent on-screen alter ego Fernando Rey, Buuel laced his scathing attacks on religion, class pretension, and moral hypocrisy with savage violence to create a trio of subversive, brutally funny masterpieces that explore the absurd randomness of existence. Among the directors most radical works as well as some of his greatest international triumphs, these films cemented his legacy as cinemas most incendiary revolutionary. THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE In Luis Buuels deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-clas