Summaries

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Several bourgeois friends planning to get together for dinner experience a succession of highly unusual occurrences that interfere with their expected dining enjoyment.—Ed Cannon <[email protected]>

A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of six outwardly respectable upper-middle class members of society and their repeatedly thwarted attempts to have a meal together - the interruptions becoming more and more surreal as the film progresses.—Michael Brooke <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • social commentary
  • absurdism
  • experimental film
  • avant garde
  • decadence
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Drama
Release date Sep 14, 1972
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) PG
Countries of origin Italy France Spain
Language Spanish Latin French
Filming locations Paris, France
Production companies Greenwich Film Productions

Box office

Budget $800000
Gross US & Canada $82471
Opening weekend US & Canada $6075
Gross worldwide $103230

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 42m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.66 : 1

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