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That Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir; Spanish: Ese oscuro objeto del deseo) is a 1977 comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, based on the 1898 novel The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs. It was Buñuel's final directorial effort before his death in July 1983.
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.
Roger Ebert March 31, 1978. Tweet. Fernando Rey with Conchita (Carole Bouquet), or one of them, in "That Obscure Object of Desire." Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The man is middle-aged, impeccably dressed, perfectly groomed, obviously respectable. He has just barely caught his train.
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...
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Drawn from the surrealist favorite Pierre Lou s’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. Film Info. 1977. 104 minutes. Color. 1.66:1. Spine #143.
Nov 19, 2001 · That Obscure Object of Desire, made in 1977 when Buñuel was almost eighty, is a seductive work that exemplifies, even as it studies, the perversity of human desire. It is the director’s last word on this, his great subject. It is thus a fitting conclusion to his illustrious career.
Sep 17, 2003 · Film. Review: That Obscure Object of Desire. One of the things that makes the film so fascinating is how Mathieu’s moral justifications are betrayed by Buñuel’s own irrational defilements. by Ed Gonzalez. September 17, 2003.
