Fireworks Logo

Trailers...

  • Distant Call (A)
  • Ngwato
  • Saved by the Beauty of the World
  • Neon Reef
  • Children of Silver Street Take a Stand (The)
  • Arctic Link
  • Divine Hammer
  • Woman Who Poked the Leopard (The)
  • Dinner (The)
  • Baracoa
  • Blue Boy Trial
  • Uncle Roy
  • Patty Is Such a Girly Name
  • 3 Atos de Moisés
  • Deadloch
  • Ballroom, danser pour exister
  • Bigfoot Woods
  • Beauty and the Beat
  • Mickey
  • At the Place of Ghosts
  • Divine Tragedy (The)
  • Man Walks Down the Street (A)
  • Stop! That! Train!
  • Rosebush Pruning
  • Summer Lost
  • House Was Not Hungry Then (The)
  • Outcome
  • Island Away From You (An)
  • Customer Journey
  • Thirteen Buttons to Heaven
  • Freddie: I Want it All
  • Hunting Wives (The)
  • I Love LA
  • Long Story Short
  • Consequences of Monsters (The)
  • Open Endings
  • Son of Sara: Volume 1
  • Male Gaze: Wild Youth (The)
  • Testament of Ann Lee (The)
  • Vladimir

That Obscure Object of Desire

Country: Spain, Language: French | Spanish, 102 mins

Original Title

Cet obscur objet du désir
  • Director: Luis Buñuel
  • Writer: Luis Buñuel; Jean-Claude Carrière
  • Producer: Serge Silberman

CGiii Comment

Silly question...but, where did he get that bucket of water???

Oooh it's a misogynistic metaphor.

Surreal, obscure, absurd...it's Buñuel, he made a career out of it.

A truly torturous experience.


Trailer...

 

The(ir) Blurb...

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...

Cast & Characters

Fernando Rey as Mathieu;
Carole Bouquet as Conchita;
Angela Molina as Conchita;
Julien Bertheau as Judge;
Andre Weber as Valet;
Milena Vukotic as Woman in train;
Maria Asquerino;
Ellen Bahl as Manolita;
Valerie Blanco;
Auguste Carriere as La femme qui reprise dans la vitrine;
Jacques Debary as Un voyageur;
Antonio Duque;
Andre Lacombe;
Lita Lluch-Peiro;
Annie Monange