That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel's masterpiece
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Release Date
8/17/1977Runtime
103 minsOverview
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
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$2,864Homepage
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A wealthy man's obsessive recollection of his torturous romance with a young woman unfolds with escalating absurdity and cruelty, punctuated by surreal interruptions that mock the very idea of romantic love. Buñuel transforms a simple tale of desire and humiliation into a darkly comedic meditation on the perversity of human attachment.
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Fernando Rey
Mathieu Faber
Carole Bouquet
Conchita
Ángela Molina
Conchita
Julien Bertheau
Édouard
André Weber
Martin
Milena Vukotić
Mother on the Train
María Asquerino
Encarnación, Conchita's Mother
Ellen Bahl
Manolita
Valerie Blanco
Isabelle
Auguste Carrière
Woman who Mending at the Window
Jacques Debary
Judge on the Train
Antonio Duque
Driver
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