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That Obscure Object of Desire is a french film of genre Drama directed by Luis Buñuel released in USA on 8 october 1977 with Fernando Rey
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
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Add to a movie listThat Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir; Spanish: Ese oscuro objeto del deseo), released in 1977, was the final film directed by Luis Buñuel. Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorist insurgency, the film tells the story of an aging Frenchman who falls in love with a young Spanish woman who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires.
In recent years That Obscure Object of Desire has been highly acclaimed by critics.
Synopsis
A dysfunctional and sometimes violent romance happens between Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a middle-aged, wealthy Frenchman, and a young, impoverished and beautiful flamenco dancer from Seville, Conchita, played by Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina. The two actresses each appear unpredictably in separate scenes, and differ not only physically, but temperamentally as well.Actors
Fernando Rey
(Mathieu Faber)
Carole Bouquet
(Conchita)
Ángela Molina
(Conchita)
Milena Vukotic
(Mother on the Train)
María Asquerino
(Encarnación, Conchita's Mother)
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