The Phantom of Liberty

Summary

Luis Bunuel's surrealist anthology drifts through a chain of loosely connected vignettes that mock bourgeois conventions, religion, law, and social taboos. Characters pass the narrative baton from one absurd situation to the next, including a dinner party held on toilets, a missing girl who is present the whole time, and a sniper celebrated as a hero. The film has no central plot, only a daisy chain of dreamlike episodes puncturing the illusion of freedom.