That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
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Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from the great Luis Buñuel. Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of Mathieu (Buñuel favorite Fernando Rey), a wealthy, middle-aged French sophisticate who falls desperately in love with his 19-year-old former chambermaid Conchita. Thus begins a surreal game of sexual cat-and-mouse, with Mathieu obsessively attempting
Aug 17, 1977 Wide
Nov 20, 2001
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Fernando Rey
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Carole Bouquet
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Ángela Molina
Conchita -
Julien Bertheau
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André Weber
Valet -
Milena Vukotic
Traveller -
Pierre Pieral
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Ellen Bahl
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With an effortlessness matched by no other director today, Buñuel creates a vision of a world as logical as a theorem, as mysterious as a dream, and as funny as a vaudeville gag.
Top CriticOne of the director's later works, That Obscure Object of Desire, examines the puzzle of sexual politics.
A mature commentary on the invisible line between passion and absurdity -- erotic, political, and religious.
Lionsgate does right by the swan song of one of cinema's least compromising, most iconoclastic mavericks, with a pristine new transfer and a robustly informative selection of spanking new extras.
Luis Bunuel's final film is also one of his finest efforts.
Bunuel's swan song, his 30th feature, is one of his finest, a surreal fable that's inventive with its double casting.
Buñuel finenesses the unrequited love between his characters with such a command of cinematic spontaneity and humanity that you could watch it a hundred times. Genius.
Only Buñuel can make coldness burn with intoxicating sensuality.
The swan song film for the legendary Spanish filmmaker.
Buñuel made often perverse, always subversive films that drew protests, bans and undying appreciation from colleagues.
That Obscure Object of Desire is an intoxicating descent into one man's experience of the emotional terrorism intended to shake him from his ways.
In the second rank of Bunuelian delights.
From Un Chien Andalou to That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel spent almost 50 years cataloging the frustrated romantic desires of his characters.
This straightforward tale of obsessive love is colored with the always amazing Bunuelian touches.
It may not be Luis Bunuel's best film, but this is probably his most complete statement on sexual relations and the dark side of desire.
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Foreign Titles
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du desir) (DE)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du desir) (UK)
