That Obscure Object of Desire
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Classics, Comedy, Drama, R
Buñuel's final film is a surrealist farce of frustrated desire. Fernando Rey (The French Connection) plays Mathieu, a wealthy widower struck by a consuming obsession for Conchita, a much younger woman, played - in typically Buñuellian strategy - by two alternating actresses (Angela Morina and Carole Bouquet. A series of vignettes laced with festishism and black humour, Buñuel's farewell to cinema is a gleefully and profoundly subversive as anything in his career.
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