In the last decade of his career, Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel achieved his greatest popular and critical success with this Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner, a caustic and surreal social comedy about hypocrisy and frustration. Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Stephane Audran play middle class friends who, in fact, are neither discreet nor charming and discover that their plans for dinner together invariably go awry. "A stiletto heel of a film ... his most fully realized work" - John Baxter, Bunuel's biographer.