Buñuel's Food Satire

A preoccupation with food, and discussions on food is a marking trait of the bourgeoise. Nobody understood better than Buñuel that food isn't just nourishment but an external symbol of attitudes of a society.

Virtually every movie he made included vicious satire on the strange relationship between the two. Needless to say, the food was always deliciously filmed.

The best scenes in the oeuvre:

The Exterminating Angel

Magnificent dinner scene with the waiter stumbling. Revealed as "modernist theater". Slow devolution of civilized society into animalistic eaters. Bonus scene: the lamb.

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise

Food, pretension, death; more food, more pretension, more death; embarassment while eating, dying while eating, embarassed dying while eating.

Viridiana

The beggars enacting The Last Supper. Photograph taken by the beggarwoman with her "winking" pudendum. Banned by the Church. Need the CC say more?