Simon of the Desert
Simon of the Desert is Luis Buñuel’s wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic’s vision of human conviction, Buñuel’s short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker’s most renowned works of surrealism.
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- A Mexican Buñuel (1995), 50-minute documentary by Emilio Maillé
- New interview with actress Silvia Pinal
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Michael Wood and a reprinted interview with Buñuel
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Special Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- A Mexican Buñuel (1995), 50-minute documentary by Emilio Maillé
- New interview with actress Silvia Pinal
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by critic Michael Wood and a reprinted interview with Buñuel
New cover by Neil Kellerhouse
Cast
- Claudio Brook
- Simon
- Enrique Alvarez Félix
- Brother Matías
- Francisco Reiquera
- The devil as an old witch
- Hortensia Santoveña
- The mother
- Luis Aceves Castañeda
- Priest
- Antonio Bravo
- Priest
- Enrique del Castillo
- The mutilated one
- Silvia Pinal
- The devil
Credits
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Screenplay
- Julio Alejandro
- Screenplay
- Luis Buñuel
- Producer
- Gustavo Alatriste
- Cinematography
- Gabriel Figueroa
- Production design
- Jesús Bracho
- Music
- Raúl Lavista
- Editing
- Carlos Savage
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