That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel's masterpiece
7.4 / 10
103 minutes
1977-08-17
Spanish
FR
Actors :
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber, Milena Vukotić, María Asquerino, Ellen Bahl, Valerie Blanco, Auguste Carrière, Jacques Debary, Antonio Duque, André Lacombe, Lita Lluch-Peiro, Annie Monange
Description
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
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CinemaSerf
11/4/2022, 4:29:02 PM
There is just a great dynamic here between the wealthy "Mathieu" (Fernando Rey) and his mischievous femme de chambre "Conchita" (Ángela Molina & Carole Bouquet). Why two actresses? Well that's because Luis Buñuel has decided to tell this entertaining story using a couple of timelines that show just how this rather stayed and sophisticated man fell under the spell of his servant and of how their re...