An admirer of Luis Buñuel’s work, Seyrig sought out the Spanish director—who was immediately struck by her beauty—and was promptly cast in a small part in The Milky Way (1969). Buñuel was fascinated by her apparently bourgeois look and refined manner, which made her a perfect fit for his droll skewering of the entitled in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. A married women in an affair with an ambassador played by Fernando Rey, Seyrig’s Simone is part of a crew of six friends consistently sidetracked from enjoying their meal, their minor dramas gradually unveiled in surreal digressions and meta-dream sequences that elude neat interpretation. Performing alongside Bulle Ogier and Stéphane Audran—two other iconic French actresses of the time—Seyrig and company are intentionally vacant characters, wandering complacently down a road to some unknown or perhaps nonexistent destination.