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That Obscure Object of Desire
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.
1977 · Directed by Luis Buñuel · 103 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · 11 frames
Tagline
Luis Buñuel's masterpiece
Crew
- Screenplay: Luis Buñuel, Pierre Louÿs, Jean-Claude Carrière
- Cinematography: Edmond Richard
- Edited by: Hélène Plemiannikov
- Production design: Pierre Guffroy, Claude Moesching
- Produced by: Serge Silberman
Cast
- Fernando Rey as Mathieu Faber
- Carole Bouquet as Conchita
- Ángela Molina as Conchita
- Julien Bertheau as Édouard
- André Weber as Martin
- Milena Vukotić as Mother on the Train
- María Asquerino as Encarnación, Conchita's Mother
- Ellen Bahl as Manolita
- Valerie Blanco as Isabelle
- Auguste Carrière as Woman who Mending at the Window
Production
- Country: France, Spain
- Language: Spanish, French
- Studios: Incine, Greenwich Film Production, Les Films Galaxie
- Box office: $2,864
- Themes: paris, france, bomb, parent child relationship, mistake in person, bucket, lausanne, switzerland, love, train, maid, humiliation
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