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Oct 8, 1977 · That Obscure Object of Desire: Directed by Luis Buñuel. With Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau. Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu (Fernando Rey), regales his fellow passengers with the story of the...
Drawn from the surrealist favorite Pierre Louÿs’s classic erotic novel La femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet, 1898), That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harks back to Buñuel’s avant-garde beginnings.
Sep 17, 2003 · From Un Chien Andalou to That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel spent almost 50 years cataloging the frustrated romantic desires of his characters.
Jan 7, 2021 · That Obscure Object of Desire: Desire, Denuded | Current | The Criterion Collection. By Adrian Martin. Essays — Jan 7, 2021. T hat Obscure Object of Desire (1977) is often referred to as Luis Buñuel’s “testament” work, the apotheosis of his remarkable career as a filmmaker.
One of Buñuel’s most clever conflations of reality and its surreal plane rests at the heart of his final film, That Obscure Object of Desire (1974), and his decision to cast two actresses as the singular, titular concept.
Oct 29, 1990 · That Obscure Object of Desire, however, is distinctly Buñuelian. The 77-year-old surrealist master injected his version with the biting subversive wit, symbolism, originality and surreal touches that distinguish his finest achievements.
