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	Fernando Rey	Mathieu Faber
	Carole Bouquet	Conchita Pérez (brunette)
	Ángela Molina	Conchita
	Julien Bertheau	Edouard
	Andre Weber	Martin
	Milena Vukotic	Femme dans le train
	Maria Asquerino	Encarnación Pérez - madre de Conchita
	Ellen Bahl	Manolita
	Valerie Blanco	Isabelle
	Auguste Carriere	La femme qui reprise dans la vitrine
	Jacques Debary	Un voyageur
	Antonio Duque	Conducteur
	Andre Lacombe	Portier
	Lita Lluch-Peiro	Ballerine
	Annie Monange	Employée du cabaret
	Jean-Claude Montalban	Garçon dans le bar
	Muni	Concierge
	Bernard Musson	Deporting Policeman
	Piéral	Psychologist
	Isabelle Rattier	Secrétaire du juge
	David Rocha	El Morenito
	Isabelle Sadoyan	Jadiner
	Juan Santamaría	Employé agence de voyages
	Mario David	Chauffeur
	Agnès Gattegno

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Director	Luis Bunuel
Writer	Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Pierre Louÿs
Producer	Serge Silberman
Photography	Edmond Richard

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Part of: Three Films by Luis Bunel

More than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch-iconoclast Luis Buñuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocations-The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire-in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and his own frequent on-screen alter ego Fernando Rey, Buñuel laced his scathing attacks on religion, class pretension, and moral hypocrisy with savage violence to create a trio of subversive, brutally funny masterpieces that explore the absurd randomness of existence. Among the director’s most radical works as well as some of his greatest international triumphs, these films cemented his legacy as cinema’s most incendiary revolutionary.

That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel’s final film brings full circle the director’s lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flair, Buñuel uses two different actors in the latter role-Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Ángela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from the surrealist favorite Pierre Louÿs’s classic erotic novel La femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet, 1898), That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harks back to Buñuel’s avant-garde beginnings.


BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière
Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire
Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, a 2012 documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary
Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film La femme el le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based
Episode of the Belgian television program Le monde du cinema from 1977, featuring Carrière, actor Fernando Rey, and producer Serge Silberman
Conversation from 1977 among many of Buñuel’s collaborators, including Carrière, Rey, and actors Julien Bertheau, Muni, and Michel Piccoli
Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack
Trailer
New English subtitle translation

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