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Luís Buñel last film and one of his most ironic comments about desire and sexuality. Adapted from the Pierre Louys' novel, La Femme et le Pantin, which already inspired The Devil is a Woman, by Stenberg. Buñuel narrates a story about an unfulfilled history of desire, and a man's longing for a woman, who manipulates him and leaves him asking for more. Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina play the same character.
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Cast:
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina -
Original Title:
Cet Obscur Objet du Désir -
Country:
France, Spain -
Year:
1977 - 103'
Director
Luis Buñuel
Born in Spain, in 1900. Luís Buñuel was a leading figure in Surrealism. An atheist and communist sympathizer who was preoccupied with themes of gratuitous cruelty, eroticism, and religious mania.
In 1917, he entered the Residencia de Estudiantes cultural institution in Madrid, where he met Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. In 1924, he moved to Paris and worked as an assistant to the filmmaker Jean Epstein. In 1929, he released his first film, Un chien Andalou, with a screenplay by Dalí. In Mexico, he shot The forgotten (1947), which won him his first prize for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. In 1961, he returned to Spain and began filming Viridiana, which won him the Palme d'Or in Cannes. In 1967, he received the Golden Lion at the Venice film Festival for Belle de Jour. He died in Mexico in 1983.
In 1917, he entered the Residencia de Estudiantes cultural institution in Madrid, where he met Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí. In 1924, he moved to Paris and worked as an assistant to the filmmaker Jean Epstein. In 1929, he released his first film, Un chien Andalou, with a screenplay by Dalí. In Mexico, he shot The forgotten (1947), which won him his first prize for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1951. In 1961, he returned to Spain and began filming Viridiana, which won him the Palme d'Or in Cannes. In 1967, he received the Golden Lion at the Venice film Festival for Belle de Jour. He died in Mexico in 1983.
