That Obscure Object of Desire
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| Directed by | Luis Buñuel |
| Produced by | Serge Silberman |
| Written by |
Luis Buñuel Jean-Claude Carrière Pierre Louÿs (novel La Femme et le Pantin) |
| Starring |
Fernando Rey Carole Bouquet Ángela Molina |
| Distributed by |
First Artists (United States) Criterion (Region 1 DVD) |
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102 minutes |
| Country | France Spain |
| Language | French, Spanish |
That Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir; Spanish: Ese oscuro objeto del deseo), a French and Spanish co-production released in 1977, was the final film directed by Luis Buñuel. Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorist insurgency, the film conveys the story told through a series of flashbacks by an aging Frenchman, Mathieu, played by Fernando Rey, who recounts falling in love with a beautiful young Spanish woman, Conchita, played interchangeably by two actresses, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina, that repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires.
In recent years, the film has been highly acclaimed by critics.
That Obscure Object of Desire was adapted from the novel La Femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet) by Pierre Louÿs, published in 1898. The novel had previously been adapted to film in 1920 by Frank Lloyd as The Woman and the Puppet, in 1928 by Jacques de Baroncelli with Conchita Montenegro, in 1935 by Josef von Sternberg as The Devil Is a Woman with Marlene Dietrich, and in 1959 by Julien Duvivier as The Female in English release (having the same title as the novel in its French release) with Brigitte Bardot.
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