#0000E/#143: BUÑUEL, Luis: That Obscure Object Of Desire (1977)

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BUÑUEL, Luis (France)
That Obscure Object Of Desire [1977]
Spine #0000E/#143
Blu-ray/DVD (OOP)


Luis Buñuel's final film explodes with eroticism, bringing 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 flare, Buñuel uses two different actresses in the lead role — Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from Pierre Louÿs' 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harkens back to Buñuel's brilliant surrealistic beginnings.

104 minutes
Color
Monaural
in French
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2001
Director/Writers


Based on the novel La femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs.
Screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière.
Buñuel was 77 when he directed That Obscure Object of Desire.


Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

#0000E: Fifty-six page booklet featuring an essay by Adrian Martin.

#143: Sixteen-page booklet featuring an essay by William Rothman.

#0000E/#143: Interviews with Buñuel, José De La Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent on the film.

Commentary

None.

Video interview

With screenwriter Carrière.
Excerpts

From Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film, La Femme et la Pantin, an alternative film adaptation of the book on which Buñuel based his film.
Theatrical trailer

#0000E:

Lady Doubles

A 2017 documentary featuring actors Bouquet and Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire.

Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel

A 2012 documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary.

Episode

Of the Belgian television program Le monde du cinema from 1977, featuring Carrière, actor Rey, and producer Serge Silberman.

Conversation

From 1977 among many of Buñuel’s collaborators, including Carrière, Rey, and actors Bertheau, Muni and Piccoli.

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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