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Studio Canal
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Featuring: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien Bertheau, André Weber, Maria Asquerino, Ellen Bahl, Bernard Musson, Muni, David Rocha, August Carrière, Milena Vukotic, Valérie Blanco, Pierre Pieral, Jacques Debary, Michel Piccoli
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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
French PCM Mono 1.0
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Film Excerpt, Theatrical Trailer, Documentary, Television Program
- Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere
- Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire
- Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, a 2012 short documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary
- Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film La femme et 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 cinéma from 1977, featuring Jean-Claude Carriere, actor Fernando Rey, and producer Serge Silberman
- Conversation from 1977 among many of Buñuel’s collaborators, including Jean-Claude Carriere, Fernando Rey, and actors Julien Bertheau, Muni, and Michel Piccoli
- Trailer
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