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That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection | Year: 1977 Classification: Foreign Film - French Directed: - Luis Buñuel Actors/Actresses: - Fernando Rey - Carole Bouquet - Ángela Molina One superb movie First at all , I must confess that my favorite film of Luis Bunuel is Viridiana.<BR>But what this film has in particular is the special enchantment who Bunuel added when we watched the dramatic transformations suffered by a same woman in an unhappy relationship. <BR>The progressive change , you perfectly can associate with the journey from Athenea to Aphrodite and back to Athenea with a touch of Gea .<BR>Athenea besides being the knowledge , the prudence and wisdom's symbol , was virginal.<BR>Instead Aphrodite simbolizes the love without restrictions and duties too. In Aphrodite's mind the idea of a perpetual relationship and marrioage, simply don't exist.<BR>Gea represents the woman who thinks in the marriage as a commitment of life. She loves the family and kids, and that's her bliss.<BR>That's why our troubled man (Fernando Rey) can not understand. Because he loves the best of both , and so his confussion grows and grows till the time comes for him to fade in that unexpected ending.<BR>One powerful of the couple. A film carefully made and a brilliant portrait who reflect the behavior of many couples in any age.<BR>Watch this monumental film . One of the most honest works of that genius: Luis Bunuel. Bunuel's genius isn't obscure. Luis Bunuel's last film . . . and he checked out with a masterpiece. It's the fifth adaptation of a torrid novel written in 1898 called *La Femme et le Pantin* (The Woman and the Puppet). The only famous version, besides this one, is 1935's *The Devil is a Woman* starring -- who else? -- Marlene Dietrich. In *That Obscure Object of Desire*, Fernando Rey is bedevilled by TWO women: in what can only be described as a stroke of genius, Bunuel cast 2 ladies to play the same part of Conchita, a young Spanish flamenco dancer who begins the movie as Rey's housemaid. The considerably different physiognomy of Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina would at first suggest a "light" or "dark" side of Conchita (or a "sophisticated" or "earthy" side -- take your pick). However, each actress is assigned to her respective scenes in a totally arbitrary manner: both run hot and cold with Rey. The CHARACTER is the same, no matter which actress plays her . . . which says something about the "objectification" in the title, perhaps. (But only Spanish Molina is allowed to dance the flamenco.) In other words, this interchangeability is more than just another of this director's famous Surrealist touches. Bunuel arrives at deeper truths about how men view women, how men need women, and how any woman will do -- despite, in this case, Mathieu's apparent obsession with one woman. The driving plot-line, which is whether or not Conchita will surrender her virginity to Mathieu, soon turns into circular entropy with no resolution. Which, after all, is the point: desire dies when it's resolved. Bunuel suggests that the sexual drive and its attendant perversities and neuroses never die. (The fact that Mathieu is 60 years old, give or take, is not an accident.) Indeed, desire dies only with death itself, as the film's final shot indicates. So many views missing the point... So many of the negative views on this master piece are missing the point. This fina ognizable classic including Edelweiss, My Favourite Things, Do Re Mi and Climb Ev'ry Mountain. Coupled with an array of magnificent production numbers that showcase both many of these songs and beautiful European locations with glorious results, then you have a recipe for astounding success. But without a doubt the strongest ingredient and major reason why The Sound of Music retains its status in the pantheon of legendary film musicals is Julie Andrews. In this she has h declared Eloise would n Rating> Buy That Obscure Object Of Desire at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on That Obscure Object Of Desire Search with the Priority Search Engine on That Obscure Object Of Desire This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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