The Phantom of Liberty
Monica Vitti: La Modernista
June 6 - 19, 2025
One of Luis Buñuel’s most celebrated late-career films endures as a deliriously provocative, audaciously subversive all-star ensemble piece and a landmark work of cinematic surrealism.
One of Luis Buñuel’s most celebrated late-career films, his penultimate feature, The Phantom of Liberty, endures as a deliriously provocative, audaciously subversive all-star ensemble piece and a landmark work of cinematic surrealism. Across a succession of non sequitur episodes (both historic and contemporary), Buñuel and his star-studded cast enact a kind of automatic writing using the apparatus of cinema. These episodes are drawn from Buñuel’s life (both waking and not), and through a logic most dreamlike, they explore the illusory nature of freedom, the hypocrisies of various social institutions, and much, much more. Monica Vitti appears as a Parisian parent whose daughters unwittingly set in motion an inexplicable chain of events.
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