Film · 1972 · Films · 1970s
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Scored from 91 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).
Summary
A group of bourgeois acquaintances repeatedly attempt to share a meal together but face a series of surreal and absurd interruptions that prevent them from ever dining. Their efforts become increasingly futile as reality itself conspires against their refined plans.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is a 1972 comedy, drama and fantasy film. It plays in French. Its country of origin is listed as France. It runs 1h 42m.
Only 91 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 93 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 687 of whom clear the calibration test. 2,405 other films from the 1970s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1970s (2,406 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 91.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
