1975 film by Chantal Akerman

The French premiere of Austrian playwright Peter Handke’s play brought together an impressive cast. It marked another collaboration between Yves Saint Laurent and the director Claude Régy, who brought many contemporary authors to the French stage (including Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Harold Pinter, and Jon Fosse)

1973 film by Fred Zinnemann

1961 film by Alain Resnais

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.