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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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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Dating framing device aside, Bunuel's final film is a splendid summation of his main thematic preoccupations related to class, sex and desire.
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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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okay it's somehow revolutionary that he uses two actress for the same character, there is nothing surreal concerning cinematography
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A last skewed mirror show about himself and about all our lives and about movies, with some text and story and actors as excuses. And a beautiful, touching ending with a bloodied and torn cloth being mended in a store display, and "a little music to get our minds off our troubles". Amusing, light as a feather, and deeper and more telling than most of the heavies. Petit mysteres galore.
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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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