That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...
Genre: Drama
Directed By: Luis Buñuel
Written By: Jean-Claude Carrière, Luis Buñuel, Pierre Louÿs
Starring: Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Fernando Rey, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic, André Weber, Ellen Bahl, María Asquerino, Jacques Debary, Valerie Blanco, Auguste Carrière, Antonio Duque
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I don't really get it, but it left me with lots of things to think about. And it was definitely entertaining. I've only seen two Buñuel movies but I'm becoming a fan, especially considering when these movies were made. I mean... Belle De Jour was made in 1967!!
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A horny old(er) man is repeatedly turned down by a young(er) manipulative woman (or more to the point, a cock-tease), all the while terrorists proceed to literally blow up their bourgeois world. This is the refusal of sexual gratification, the denial of the consummation of sexual desire, in film form. Rey as Mathieu and Carole Bouquet/Ángela Molina as Conchita are entirely convincing as the lustful man and virginal woman. Buñuel's decision as to when Conchita appears naked is masterful.
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As our desires become intertwined with the affection love demands, one is deceived by both sides of the Real object at hand. This hedonistic drive is beyond conscious capabilities and prevents even simple recall of the true other that is greatly desired. I find it clever and in my opinion, needed a slight more nuance approach to make this great.
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The best surrealism seems firstly to be disjointed or unreal, but then, through some mysterious alchemy, generates uncanny effects. Interpretations of this film seem to miss this crucial element. Buñuel: "I don't enjoy rummaging around in the cliches of psychoanalysis." "In addition to the theme of the impossibility of ever truly possessing a woman's body, the film insists upon maintaining that climate of insecurity and imminent disaster—an atmosphere we all recognize, because it is our own."
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I see it as a movie about domination and how you can terrorize others with your own weapons: Mathieu as a rich man who repeatedly allows himself in Conchita's life and dominate her with his money. Conchita who plays with Mathieu's desire and cages him with it, playing with her youth and beauty. While the terrorists in the background are using their weapons for (probably) political reasons and are repeatedly in the news, looming over the normal bourgeois lives.
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Couple this with Lacan and a film like "Phantom Thread" and you have the utmost truthful lesson about human self-deception. The desire is never there to fulfill itself, we desire inasmuch as to rekindle the cycle and dialectic of desire once again, through petty obstacles. Desire is to have the ability to desire again -and for ever. The real anxiety is loss of this ability to desire; self-deception is the fantasy we project upon the obstacles; as if "this one" will fulfill us, but will it ever?
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