The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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What critics compared The Phantom of Liberty to
Unless "A Cinderella Story" is trying for a surrealist bent by having people react to something in utterly bizarre ways (I am reminded of the moment in "The Phantom of Liberty" where a distraught parent reports that her child is missing, even though she is sitting right there in the room.)…
And in the spirit of those words, the film takes on dreams and dream logic with the most full-fledged embrace since Luis Bunuel released The Phantom of Liberty nearly three decades ago.