THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE

| 1977 (Re-released in 2026) – 104′ – Classic, Romance, Comedy, Films & Literature.
Written by: Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière.
Based on the Book by: Pierre Louÿs.
Directed by: Luis Buñuel.
Starring: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, Andre Weber, Pierre Piéral, Milena Vukotic, Jacques Debary, André Lacombe.
Official selection Critics’ Week Cannes 2025.
In French with English subtitles.
A The Criterion Collection release. |

Luis Buñuel’s final film brings full circle the director’s lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flair, Buñuel uses two different actors in the latter role–Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Ángela Molina, a Spanish coquette. 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.

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