Adolfo Celi

A quiet schoolteacher recruits an elite team of international criminals for the ultimate diamond caper at the frenzied peak of Carnival.

Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.

This deliciously witty story follows an eccentric millionaire who tricks his three former mistresses into believing that he is on his deathbed in order to prevent them from getting his fortune.