toilets &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:toilets @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:52:01 +0200 Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] (Luis Buñuel, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/le-fantome-de-la-liberte-1974 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] (Luis Buñuel, 1974)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 9/div div class="occasion" World Kidney Day/div div class="img" Le fantôme de la liberté (1974)/div div class="caption" Five adults and a child at a large table. They're all seated on toilets. One of the men is defecating. DP: Edmond Richard./div div class="txt" ##### Eating is taboo, and relieving oneself is performed on a toilet at a communal table in Luis Buñuel's Le fantôme de la liberté. The farce strings together events from #Buñuel's life (who was 74 by the time he made this film), with dreams remembered by both Buñuel and co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière.\ "Madrid was filled with the stench of – pardon my language – food. It was indecent." ### – le professeur des gendarmes\ The title references the opening sentence from Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto (1848): "A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.". What follows is a wonderful, free-flowing pastiche performed by a sublime cast./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldKidneyDay #LuisBuñuel #JeanClaudeCarrière #MichaelLonsdale #MichelPiccoli #MonicaVitti #EdmondRichard #toilets #satire #France #Italy #1970s/div /section ]]>

Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] (Luis Buñuel, 1974)

Mar

9

World Kidney Day

Le fantôme de la liberté (1974)

Five adults and a child at a large table. They're all seated on toilets. One of the men is defecating. DP: Edmond Richard.

Eating is taboo, and relieving oneself is performed on a toilet at a communal table in Luis Buñuel's Le fantôme de la liberté. The farce strings together events from #Buñuel's life (who was 74 by the time he made this film), with dreams remembered by both Buñuel and co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière.

“Madrid was filled with the stench of – pardon my language – food. It was indecent.”

– le professeur des gendarmes

The title references the opening sentence from Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto (1848): “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.”. What follows is a wonderful, free-flowing pastiche performed by a sublime cast.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #WorldKidneyDay #LuisBuñuel #JeanClaudeCarrière #MichaelLonsdale #MichelPiccoli #MonicaVitti #EdmondRichard #toilets #satire #France #Italy #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/le-fantome-de-la-liberte-1974 Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:04:48 +0100 Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/ucho-1970-bfyb <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 27/div div class="occasion" Thomas Crapper Day/div div class="img" Ucho (1970)/div div class="caption" Ludvik (Radoslav Brzobohatý) taking a break from the official's party in a pristine but claustrophobic, white-tiled toilet stall. DP: Josef Illík./div div class="txt" \ "Even you, Ear, can't listen in the toilet!" ### – Ludvik\ /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #ThomasCrapperDay #toilets #KarelKachyňa #RadoslavBrzobohatý #JiřinaBohdalová #SvatoplukHavelka #JosefIllík #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #drama #satire #paranoia #politics #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Ucho [The Ear] (Karel Kachyňa, 1970)

Jan

27

Thomas Crapper Day

Ucho (1970)

Ludvik (Radoslav Brzobohatý) taking a break from the official's party in a pristine but claustrophobic, white-tiled toilet stall. DP: Josef Illík.

“Even you, Ear, can't listen in the toilet!”

– Ludvik

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #ThomasCrapperDay #toilets #KarelKachyňa #RadoslavBrzobohatý #JiřinaBohdalová #SvatoplukHavelka #JosefIllík #ČeskoslovenskáNováVlna #drama #satire #paranoia #politics #Czechoslovakia #1970s ★★★★☆

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