That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

This is our last stop for French movies this month and the last of our most romantic week under September’s EUROPEAN VACATION theme. This movie bounces around from France to Spain and is one of the most bizarre romantic comedies out there. Pretty impressive for any director to hit it like this at the age of 80 but Luis Buñuel was a different breed. Fernando Rey plays a well-to-do widower who falls for a poor but beautiful 19 year old who lives with her mother. His obsessions overwhelm him as everything seems to be going spectacularly except he just can’t get that one thing that many men want. Despite that they can’t seem to keep away from each other. This woman seems so subtle and elegant or then again maybe she’s actually sultry and emotive? It’s like she’s two different people and why does she hang out with those street boys? Is she really a virgin? We’re discussing Luis Buñuel’s final film, the 1977 romantic comedy, “THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE” starring Fernando Rey and most notably featuring Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina both playing the female lead, “Conchita”. Also featuring terrorism! This is probably peak “domestic violence in a comedy” that we will probably ever get. Not saying it’s played for laughs but maybe that’s what wealthy middle aged European men will do when they don’t actually get to sleep with the young woman in the movie. Such chastitiy is a rare occurrence in these Euro flicks.

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