Watch That Obscure Object Of Desire (1977) Free Online

Release Date: 1977

Cast: María Asquerino, Julien Bertheau, Michel Piccoli, Ellen Bahl, Carole Bouquet, Milena Vukotic, Ángela Molina, Fernando Rey

Categories: Movies, Romantic comedy, Sex comedy, Art film, World cinema, Surrealism, Comedy, Satire, Romantic drama, Black comedy, Romance Film

That Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir; Spanish: Ese oscuro objeto del deseo) is a 1977 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 woman who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires. A dysfunctional and sometimes violent romance between Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a middle-aged, wealthy Frenchman, and Conchita (Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina), a young, impoverished and beautiful flamenco dancer from Seville (two... MORE

That Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir; Spanish: Ese oscuro objeto del deseo) is a 1977 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 woman who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires. A dysfunctional and sometimes violent romance between Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a middle-aged, wealthy Frenchman, and Conchita (Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina), a young, impoverished and beautiful flamenco dancer from Seville (two actresses play one character—Conchita—each appearing unpredictably in separate scenes). The two actresses differ not only physically, but temperamentally as well. Most of the film is a "flashback," told by Mathieu; the framing, non-flashback story elements appear only at the start and end of the film. The movie opens with Mathieu travelling by train from Seville to Paris. He's trying to distance himself from his young girlfriend Conchita. As Mathieu's train is ready to depart he finds that a bruised and bandaged Conchita is pursuing him. From the train he pours a bucket of water over her head. He LESS