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Creator/MichelPiccoli appears as the Interior Minister.
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Creator/MichelPiccoli appears as the Interior Minister.
Minister. This film was one of the inspirations for Creator/StephenSondheim's final musical ''Theatre/HereWeAre''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Similarities to Bunuel's own ''Film/TheExterminatingAngel'' are totally deliberate.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziLand: Apparently the fictional Latin American country of Miranda is a common destination for Nazis who fled the Reich. One dinner anecdote tells of a Nazi concentration camp commander who was arrested there. Rafael, the Mirandan ambassador, claims he was a perfectly polite guy.
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* BananaRepublic: The Republic of Miranda, a fictional country somewhere in Latin America. Its ambassador brushes aside any allegations of high crime and authoritarianism while smuggling cocaine into France.
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* BananaRepublic: The Republic of Miranda, a fictional country somewhere in Latin America. Its ambassador brushes aside any allegations of high crime crime, [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand Nazi hideouts]], and authoritarianism while smuggling cocaine into France.
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* BananaRepublic: The Republic of Miranda, represented by a female {{Western Terrorist|s}}.
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* BananaRepublic: The Republic of Miranda, represented by a female {{Western Terrorist|s}}.fictional country somewhere in Latin America. Its ambassador brushes aside any allegations of high crime and authoritarianism while smuggling cocaine into France.
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* LatinLand: Miranda is somewhere in Latin America. The bishop tries to make small talk with Rafael about it but keeps mixing it up with other countries.
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* TwoTimingWithTheBestie: Simone is having an affair with her husband's good friend Rafael.
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* CluckingFunny: The roast chickens turn out to be props.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Simone is having an affair with Rafael.
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!! "The Discreet Tropes of the Bourgeoisie":
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!! "The Discreet Tropes of the Bourgeoisie":
If they list their own tropes, they must have their reasons.
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* EnsembleCast: There are six main characters (Rafael, François, Simone, Florence, Henri and Alice). Other characters are important in some scenes (the bishop, the lieutenant, the colonel, the female terrorist, the sergeant...).
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* BlackComedy: After the guests are brutally gunned down, one who escaped being killed tries to sneak food from the table he's hiding under, blowing his cover. The assassin shoots the table, looks under, and sees the guest eating the food as he helplessly looks up at him. He gets gunned down too.
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* BlackComedy: After The humour of the film comes from situations related to death. For example, early in the film, there is a funny scene where the group walks into an empty restaurant. Soon they discover that the owner has just died and the coffin is in the next room. Near the end, after the guests are brutally gunned down, one Rafael, who escaped being killed tries to sneak killed, cannot stop himself from sneaking food from the table he's hiding under, blowing his cover. The assassin shoots the table, looks under, and sees the guest eating the food as he helplessly looks up at him. He gets gunned down too.
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this is not funny from the point of view of characters
* BlackComedy: After the guests are brutally gunned down, one who escaped being killed tries to sneak food from the table he's hiding under, blowing his cover. The assassin shoots the table, looks under, and sees the guest eating the food as he helplessly looks up at him. He gets gunned down too.
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* GallowsHumor: After the guests are brutally gunned down, one who escaped being killed tries to sneak food from the table he's hiding under, blowing his cover. The assassin shoots the table, looks under, and sees the guest eating the food as he helplessly looks up at him. He gets gunned down too.
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** When the group is in prison, the ghost of Brigadier Sanglant appears and free them, but it is revealed to be a dream of the police superintendent.
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** When the group is in prison, the mortally-wounded ghost of Brigadier Sanglant appears and free them, but it is revealed to be a dream of the police superintendent.
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* BadassPreacher: A bishop goes to bless a dying man who he discovers was responsible for killing the bishop's parents. The bishop blesses him...and blows him away with a shotgun.
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* BadassPreacher: A bishop goes to bless a dying man who he discovers was responsible for killing the bishop's parents. The bishop blesses him... and blows him away with a shotgun.
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* ChekhovsGun: Earlyin the film Rafael, Francois, and Henri are shown to be part of a cocaine-smuggling ring. Late in the film they're arrested.
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* ChekhovsGun: Earlyin ChekhovsGun:
** Early in the film Rafael, Francois, and Henri are shown to be part of a cocaine-smuggling ring. Late in the film they'rearrested.arrested.
** When he gets introduced to the Sénéchals, the bishop tells them that his parents were murdered when he was a kid. In the end, he meets the murderer and kills him.
** Early in the film Rafael, Francois, and Henri are shown to be part of a cocaine-smuggling ring. Late in the film they're
** When he gets introduced to the Sénéchals, the bishop tells them that his parents were murdered when he was a kid. In the end, he meets the murderer and kills him.
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* DaydreamSurprise: Twice in a row: the group goes to dinner at the colonel's house, only to find that they are in a stage play, is eventually revealed to be a dream of Henri. Then they go to the colonel's for real, except it's not for real, as that scene is revealed to be a dream of Francois.
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* DaydreamSurprise: ContrivedCoincidence: An old man calls the bishop to have the last rites before dying. He has a crime the confess: he killed two people many years ago. It turns out they were the parents of the bishop.
* DaydreamSurprise:
** [[DreamWithinADream Twice in arow: row]]: the group goes to dinner at the colonel's house, only to find that they are in a stage play, play. This is eventually revealed to be a dream of Henri. Then they go to the colonel's for real, except it's not for real, as that scene is revealed to be a dream of Francois.Francois.
** When the group is in prison, the ghost of Brigadier Sanglant appears and free them, but it is revealed to be a dream of the police superintendent.
** The group is dining at the Sénéchal. A group of terrorists arrives and kills everybody, except Rafael who is hiding beneath the table. It is revealed to be Rafael's dream.
* DaydreamSurprise:
** [[DreamWithinADream Twice in a
** When the group is in prison, the ghost of Brigadier Sanglant appears and free them, but it is revealed to be a dream of the police superintendent.
** The group is dining at the Sénéchal. A group of terrorists arrives and kills everybody, except Rafael who is hiding beneath the table. It is revealed to be Rafael's dream.
* DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Brigadier Sanglant grabs the pendant of a young suspect and rips it forcibly off of their neck.
* DreamSequence:
** Four dream sequences are [[DaydreamSurprise daydream surprises]].
** There is also the dream of the sergeant, where he meets a dead friend and his mother.
* DreamSequence:
** Four dream sequences are [[DaydreamSurprise daydream surprises]].
** There is also the dream of the sergeant, where he meets a dead friend and his mother.
* {{Flashback}}:
** The sequence where an officer tells Simone, Florence and Alice about how he murdered his stepfather when he was a boy.
** The sequence about Brigadier Sanglant, told by one policeman to the other.
** The sequence where an officer tells Simone, Florence and Alice about how he murdered his stepfather when he was a boy.
** The sequence about Brigadier Sanglant, told by one policeman to the other.
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* JackhammerConversation: When the Interior Minister is telling the police captain why he wants Rafael and his friends released, the sound of a jet flying overhead is heard, masking the conversation. When the police captain is telling his subordinate, the typewriter in the background unaccountably gets much louder.
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* JackhammerConversation: JackhammeredConversation: When the Interior Minister is telling the police captain why he wants Rafael and his friends released, the sound of a jet flying overhead is heard, masking the conversation. When the police captain is telling his subordinate, the typewriter in the background unaccountably gets much louder.
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* PoliceBrutality: "You can't just arrest people like this."
* ProsceniumReveal: Easily one of the weirdest in cinema. The gang arrives at the colonel's house and sits down for dinner. Suddenly the scene cuts to a reverse angle which shows that the fourth wall is in fact a stage curtain. The curtain rises, and they are revealed to be in a play, with an audience watching, and a director whispering cues for their lines. It turns out to be Henri's dream.
* RandomEventsPlot: They go out to dinner, but it's the wrong night...they go out to dinner, but the restaurant's owner is dead...a young woman tries to kill Rafael...Rafael and Simone meet for a tryst...the bishop kills a guy...
* ProsceniumReveal: Easily one of the weirdest in cinema. The gang arrives at the colonel's house and sits down for dinner. Suddenly the scene cuts to a reverse angle which shows that the fourth wall is in fact a stage curtain. The curtain rises, and they are revealed to be in a play, with an audience watching, and a director whispering cues for their lines. It turns out to be Henri's dream.
* RandomEventsPlot: They go out to dinner, but it's the wrong night...they go out to dinner, but the restaurant's owner is dead...a young woman tries to kill Rafael...Rafael and Simone meet for a tryst...the bishop kills a guy...
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* OurGhostsAreDifferent:
** In the story of the lieutenant, his dead mother appears to him and she tells him to kill his stepfather. The lieutenant's father also briefly appears. His is badly wounded because he was killed by the lieutenant's stepfather.
** In the dream of the sergeant, he first meets a dead friend. Then he meets his own mother, who is implied to be dead too.
** The ghost of Brigadier Sanglant appears in the prison and he frees the convicts.
* PoliceBrutality:"You can't just arrest Brigadier Sanglant tortured people like this."
to make them talk.
* ProsceniumReveal: Easily one of the weirdest in cinema. The gang arrives at the colonel's house and sits down for dinner. Suddenly the scene cuts to a reverse angle which shows that the fourth wall is in fact a stage curtain. The curtain rises, and they are revealed to be in a play, with an audience watching, and adirector prompter whispering cues for their lines. It turns out to be Henri's dream.
* RandomEventsPlot: They go out to dinner, but it's the wrong night... they go out to dinner, but the restaurant's owner isdead...dead... a young woman tries to kill Rafael...Rafael... Rafael and Simone meet for a tryst...tryst... the bishop kills a guy...
** In the story of the lieutenant, his dead mother appears to him and she tells him to kill his stepfather. The lieutenant's father also briefly appears. His is badly wounded because he was killed by the lieutenant's stepfather.
** In the dream of the sergeant, he first meets a dead friend. Then he meets his own mother, who is implied to be dead too.
** The ghost of Brigadier Sanglant appears in the prison and he frees the convicts.
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* ProsceniumReveal: Easily one of the weirdest in cinema. The gang arrives at the colonel's house and sits down for dinner. Suddenly the scene cuts to a reverse angle which shows that the fourth wall is in fact a stage curtain. The curtain rises, and they are revealed to be in a play, with an audience watching, and a
* RandomEventsPlot: They go out to dinner, but it's the wrong night... they go out to dinner, but the restaurant's owner is
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* YouKilledMyFather: A soldier poisons the man who he had thought was his father after the ghost of his mother tells him that that man killed the man who actually was his father.
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* YouKilledMyFather: YouKilledMyFather:
** A soldier poisons the man who he had thought was his father after the ghost of his mother tells him that that man killed the man who actually was hisfather.father.
** The bishop kills the old man who confesses that he poisoned the bishop's parents.
** A soldier poisons the man who he had thought was his father after the ghost of his mother tells him that that man killed the man who actually was his
** The bishop kills the old man who confesses that he poisoned the bishop's parents.
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* DaydreamSurprise: Twice in a row: the group goes to dinner at the colonel's house, only to find that they are in a stage play, is eventually revealed to be a dream of Henri. Then they go to the colonel's for real, except it's not for real, as that scene is revealed to be a dream of Francois.
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* DreamWithinADream: The bizarre scene where the group goes to dinner at the colonel's house, only to find that they are in a stage play, is eventually revealed to be a dream of Henri's. Then they go to the colonel's for real, except it's not for real, as that scene is revealed to be a dream of Francois's.
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* DreamWithinADream: The bizarre scene where the group goes to dinner at the colonel's house, only to find that they are in a stage play, is eventually revealed to be a dream of Henri's. Henri. Then they go to the colonel's for real, except it's not for real, as that scene is revealed to be a dream of Francois's.Francois.
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* CatapultNightmare: The last bizarre sequence, in which the whole group is machine-gunned to death, turns out to be Rafael's nightmare. He bolts up in bed and gasps.
* ChekhovsGun: Earlyin the film Rafael, Francois, and Henri are shown to be part of a cocaine-smuggling ring. Late in the film they're arrested.
* ChekhovsGun: Earlyin the film Rafael, Francois, and Henri are shown to be part of a cocaine-smuggling ring. Late in the film they're arrested.
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* JackhammerConversation: When the Interior Minister is telling the police captain why he wants Rafael and his friends released, the sound of a jet flying overhead is heard, masking the conversation. When the police captain is telling his subordinate, the typewriter in the background unaccountably gets much louder.
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* RandomEventsPlot: They go out to dinner, but it's the wrong night...they go out to dinner, but the restaurant's owner is dead...a young woman tries to kill Rafael...Rafael and Simone meet for a tryst...the bishop kills a guy...
