Luis Buñuel's final film explodes with eroticism, bringing 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 flare, Buñuel uses two different actresses in the lead- Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from Pierre Louÿs' 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harkens back to Buñuel's brilliant surrealistic beginnings.

Supplements Video interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli's 1929 silent film, La Femme et le Pantin, an alternative film adaptation of the book on which Buñuel based his film Reprinted interview with director Luis Buñuel Theatrical trailer Optional English-dubbed track

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