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Movie Overview
Cast
Fernando Rey
Carole Bouquet
Ángela Molina
Director
Luis Buñuel
MPAA Rating
Not Rated
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
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"The swan song film for the legendary Spanish filmmaker."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
4/4
"From
Un Chien Andalou
to
That Obscure Object of Desire
, Luis Buñuel spent almost 50 years cataloging the frustrated romantic desires of his characters."
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
82/100
"Only Buñuel can make coldness burn with intoxicating sensuality."
Film and Felt
Gabe Leibowitz
4/4
"like many of Buñuel's works, a perversely funny film, especially in the way he undercuts conventional notions of both romance and cinema"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
A
"Buñuel's pot shots in
That Object of Desire
are well-planned provocative scenarios that show just how difficult it is to understand sexual desires."
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
A-
"
That Obscure Object of Desire
is an intoxicating descent into one man’s experience of the emotional terrorism intended to shake him from his ways."
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
Mark Pfeiffer
4.5/5
"One might call it a gimmick, but I saw it as a stroke of genius."
Goatdog's Movies
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
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Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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