That Obscure Object of Desire
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.
Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
- Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Ángela 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
- Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film La femme el le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based
- Episode of the Belgian television program Le monde du cinema from 1977, featuring Carrière, actor Fernando Rey, and producer Serge Silberman
- Conversation from 1977 among many of Buñuel’s collaborators, including Carrière, Rey, and actors Julien Bertheau, Muni, and Michel Piccoli
- Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
Available In
Collector's Set
Blu-ray Special Edition Features
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
- Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Ángela 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
- Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film La femme el le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based
- Episode of the Belgian television program Le monde du cinema from 1977, featuring Carrière, actor Fernando Rey, and producer Serge Silberman
- Conversation from 1977 among many of Buñuel’s collaborators, including Carrière, Rey, and actors Julien Bertheau, Muni, and Michel Piccoli
- Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
Cast
- Fernando Rey
- Mathieu Faber
- Carole Bouquet
- Conchita Perez
- Angela Molina
- Conchita Perez
- Julien Bertheau
- Edouard, Mathieu’s cousin
- André Weber
- Martin, the valet
- Milena Vukotic
- Woman on the train
- Maria Asquerino
- Incarnacion Perez, Conchita’s mother
- Ellen Bahl
- Manolita
- Bernard Musson
- The police inspector
- Muni
- The concierge
- David Rocha
- El Morenito
- August Carrière
- Seamstress
- Valérie Blanco
- Her daughter
- Pierre Pieral
- The psychology professor
- Jacques Debary
- The magistrate
Credits
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Screenplay
- Luis Buñuel
- Screenplay
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Based on the novel La femme et le pantin by
- Pierre Louÿs
- Assistant directors
- Pierre Lary
- Assistant directors
- Juan Luis Buñuel
- Editor
- Hélène Plemiannikov
- Production designer
- Pierre Guffroy
- Director of photography
- Edmond Richard
- Production manager
- Ully Pickard
- Producer
- Serge Silberman
- Costumes
- Sylvie De Segonzac
- Makeup
- Odette Berroyer
- Sound
- Guy Villette
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