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	Lesson 4 The Obscure Object of Desire
		Poros, the father of desire and one of the gods present at the banquet in the honour of Aphrodite, retreats and, drunk on nectar, falls asleep in the grass.
		There are core desires and peripheral desires, desires that are true aspirations of the soul and others that are disorderly excrescences of the intellect, sprouts that do not have their true root in the self.
		Desire has been identified with the temptations of the flesh and of sin, with sexuality as evil, with the damnation of concupiscence, and we have lost sight of Desire’s divine aspect.
	perso.orange.fr /philospir/Lesson4.htm (6579 words)

	DVD Review: That Obscure Object of Desire (Criterion)
		"Desire" stars Fernando Rey as Mathieu, an older and wealthy gentleman who we see throwing a bucket of water on a woman as she races alongside his departing train.
		He desires her, wants her, but never really gets her; when he finds himself getting closer to being intimate, she (or, one of the two) turns frosty towards his advances and departs, only to meet up with him again further down the road.
		He remains confused and dissapoined with Conchita's ability to slip from his grasp - she remains an object of his desire, but also an object of mystery, as he never quite understands her, when she really wanted to be recognized as something more than just an object.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/obscureobjectccdvd.html (676 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Luis Buñuel and That Obscure Object of Desire
		That Obscure Object of Desire bears a mature poise, but not at the expense of the director's early force.
		Or that she's just as obsessed with being the obscure object of Mathieu's desire as he is with having her.
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	That Obscure Object of Desire - Essay
		That Obscure Object of Desire, made in 1977 when Buñuel was almost eighty, is a seductive work that exemplifies, even as it studies, the perversity of human desire.
		Adapted from the Pierre Louÿs novel on which Josef von Sternberg based The Devil is a Woman four decades earlier, That Obscure Object of Desire tells the story of Mathieu, an aging aristocrat, who pursues the young Conchita through a series of amorous encounters in which she arouses his desire but denies his sexual satisfaction.
		In That Obscure Object of Desire, this connection is enhanced by the fact that the Rey character doubles as a storyteller.
	www.coldbacon.com /movies/thatobscureobjectofdesire-essay.html (1176 words)

	That Obscure Object of Desire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		That Obscure Object of Desire (French: Cet obscur objet du désir; Spanish: Ese oscuro objeto del deseo) is a 1977 film directed by the auteur Luis Buñuel.
		Written by Buñuel himself with long-time collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, it was based on a French book by Pierre Louÿs entitled La Femme et le pantin, although liberties were taken with many aspects of the source material for the screenplay.
		Originally the character of Conchita was only to be played by Maria Schneider, from Last Tango in Paris, but she objected to the nude scenes she'd have had to do in this picture (despite having done a dozen sex scenes earlier in her career).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/That_Obscure_Object_of_Desire (792 words)

	Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema: That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir)
		That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir)
		THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (CET OBSCUR OBJET DU DÉSIR) (Luis Buñuel, 1977)
		As he displays in other moments, he views her as an object, an item to be possessed and something to do his bidding.
	reeltimes.blogspot.com /2005/07/that-obscure-object-of-desire-cet.html (1024 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: That Obscure Object of Desire
		Though not as revered today as, say, L'Avventura, The Obscure Object of Desire (based on the Pierre Loyuys novel which Josef von Sternberg previously filmed as The Devil is a Woman) similarly uses a radical rhetorical device to hone in on the particulars of its characters' strange romantic entanglements.
		When writing That Obscure Object of Desire with Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière suggested the script's lead female role be played by two actresses, an idea the director quickly brushed aside at the time as "the whim of a rainy day." That whim, though, would become a fascinating wish fulfillment.
		Not unlike The Phantom of Liberty, That Obscure Object of Desire is very much about those irrational and mysterious acts that bring us together.
	www.slantmagazine.com /Film/film_review.asp?ID=815 (828 words)

	Cet obscur objet du desir (That Obscure Object of Desire)
		Cet obscur objet du desir (That Obscure Object of Desire)
		Conchita is a character defined by her desire to maintain her freedom and individuality.
		As we mainly see Conchita through his eyes, his memories, she remains obscure to us although not nearly to the degree she does to him.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/obscureobject.html (2087 words)

	The DVD Journal: That Obscure Object of Desire: The Criterion Collection
		Buñuel was able to work almost infinite variations on his obsessions, and his 1977 That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) is not so much a summing up of a career as yet another reshuffling of his themes.
		That Obscure Object of Desire was their last collaboration, but serves as both a handy introduction to their work and a relaxed zenith of their quirky vision.
		That Obscure Object of Desire opens with its central character Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a wealthy, liberal businessman about to embark on a trip, supervising his valet as he burns everything in the house associated with an as-yet-unidentified woman.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/t/thatobscureobject_cc.shtml (1767 words)

	TIME.com: Orderly Chaos -- Dec. 5, 1977 -- Page 1
		That Obscure Object of Desire is Buñuel's free-flowing meditation on Mathieu's fall from bourgeois grace, and like so many films by this great surrealist director, it is art of the most subversive kind.
		In Obscure Object the director never bothers to explain Conchita's stubborn celibacy or any of his story's other absurdities, for he does not believe that any explanations exist.
		This is why, in Obscure Object, Buñuel pulls the fiendish stunt of casting two actresses as Conchita, and then proceeds to interchange them at whim.
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	End of Media » Blog Archive » That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
		“That Obscure Object of Desire” is a love story of non-starters, or to put it another way, a love story without the essential ingredients, those being attraction, affection, or even love.
		She accepts a beautiful home from Mathieu in Seville and then uses it to do one of the worst things a woman can do to a lover short of murdering or mutilating him, delivering a speech of such hateful contempt that you’d be hard pressed to find anything more nasty in the literary canon.
		“That Obscure Object of Desire” was adapted by Buñuel and his frequent collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière from Pierre Louys’ 1920 erotic novel “La femme et le pantin” (The Woman and the Puppet), and wasn’t the first or even the second adaptation of the novel, but is certainly the most interesting from an artistic standpoint.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: That Obscure Object of Desire: The Criterion Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Buñuel was able to work almost infinite variations on his obsessions, and his last film is not so much a summing up of a career as yet another reshuffling of his themes.
		That Obscure Object of Desire concerns Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a wealthy businessman who ends up in a tormenting and comic relationship with the elusive Conchita (Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina in a dual role).
		In a framing device, he tells this tale of off-beat romance to a compartment full of strangers on a train, all of whom more or less ignore the terrorist acts that afflict the city.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/t/thatobscureobject_cc.q.shtml (485 words)

	dOc DVD Review: That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) (1977)
		That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir) (1977)
		After pouring a bucket of water over the head of a young girl at the train station as he prepares to depart, Mathieu (Mateo in the subtitles) is obligated to tell the story that justifies his most recent actions to those in his travelling compartment.
		Dosed with healthy amount of the absurd, That Obscure Object of Desire is required viewing for any Buñuel fan, and despite its leanings into the abstract, is one of the director's more accessable films.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1865 (1363 words)

	That Obscure Object of Desire (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.csail.mit.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Luis Bunuel’s final work, That Obscure Object of Desire, is an enigmatic and incongruously funny film of love, lust, and the occasional terrorist attack.
		That Obscure Object of Desire is a remarkable film, and has about it the aura of a private joke being played on the audience.
		The resulting implication is that desire can so obscure reason that he can’t even hold onto the vision of the one he loves (harking back to the old wive’s tale that you can never really picture in you mind the person you love the most).
	www.classicsondvd.com.cob-web.org:8888 /obscure.htm (615 words)

	The double in Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire. \| Educational Services from AllBusiness.com
		That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) is the last movie that Luis Bunuel made.
		The word "obscure" next to "object" evokes a woman desired by a man but whose behavior remains incomprehensible to him.
		In addition, the equivalent of the word "obscure" in Spanish, that is oscuro, recalls the dark color of the woman's hair.
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	The Criterion Collection: That Obscure Object of Desire
		Drawn from Pierre Louÿs’ 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harkens back to Buñuel’s brilliant surrealistic beginnings.
		That Obscure Object of Desire is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1.
		As the director's final masterpiece, That Obscure Object of Desire fulfills all expectations for a strange and provocative tale of obsession and its unpredictable results.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=143 (291 words)

	That Obscure Object of Desire
		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.
		From Un Chien Andalou to That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel spent almost 50 years cataloging the frustrated romantic desires of his characters.
		One of the director's later works, That Obscure Object of Desire, examines the puzzle of sexual politics.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/that_obscure_object_of_desire (635 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), Luis Bunuel, Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, ...
		That Obscure Object of Desire marked the final collaboration between Buñuel and the great screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who worked on six Buñuel films in all, then helped author Buñuel's excellent autobiography My Last Sigh, published in 1983, the year the great filmmaker died.
		Though That Obscure Object of Desire was based on a novel (by Pierre Louys) that had been filmed many times before -- most famously by Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich as The Devil Is a Woman (1935) -- Buñuel took the material and made it his own.
		Buñuel punctuates That Obscure Object of Desire with random terrorist activities in France and Spain.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /thatobs.shtml (912 words)

	That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet Obscur Objet du Désir) Film Review - Time Out Film
		Buñuel's last film, adapted from the Pierre Louys novel (about a woman who drives a man to distractions of frustrated desire) which also served as a basis for Sternberg's The Devil Is a Woman.
		Full of echoes from Buñuel's earlier work, it might almost be seen as a summation of his preoccupation with the connection between sex and violence, first annotated in L'Age d'or.
		His great coup here is to have the object of the hero's lusts played by two different actresses, with the alternation of svelte coolness and steamy voluptuousness lending teasing credibility to the way in which his ardour is cruelly cooled and heated by turns.
	www.timeout.com /film/79155.html (188 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| That Obscure Object of Desire
		That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), now available in a beautiful transfer from Criterion, is Buñuel’s masterful final film, a cosmic farce that summarizes his lifelong interest in the pleasures and frustrations of the fetish.
		Buñuel gleefully exploits the story’s most sordid aspects for fl humor in what could be construed on one level as one of the longest, most agonizing episodes of foreplay on record.
		One controversial aspect of That Obscure Object of Desire is what some have construed as its sexism.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /35/obscureobject.html (949 words)

	That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
		Puzzling plot deters many, but often-funny exploration of desire's vicissitudes pleases art-house buffs.
		Similarly paranoid, slightly misogynist Bunuelian examination of jealousy and desire.
		Almodovar explores desire from female masochist's point-of-view; less surreal, funnier.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1996 (138 words)

	IGN: That Obscure Object of Desire (The Criterion Collection) Review
		Surrealism in itself is a challenging concept to bring to the big screen but through most of his career and especially his last few films, Bunuel put forth some fantastic concepts and helped shape surrealism in modern filmmaking.
		His last film, That Obscure Object of Desire is littered with surrealist concepts.
		There is also a very European trailer for the film playing up the nudity and passion of the film.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/317/317643p1.html (936 words)

	Amazon.com: That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection: DVD: Fernando Rey,Carole Bouquet,Ángela ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In this, his last film, he captures the related themes of obsessive desire, frustration, and immaturity perfectly, crafting a wicked fl comedy.
		When a wealthy middle-aged man, played to perfection by Fernando Rey, is entranced by a young girl he has recently hired as one of the maids in his grand mansion, he pursues her obsessively.
		I don't know if these silly explosions, the unrealistic destruction of automobiles were limited by budget constraints, or if this was a campy outing of those funny terrorists we have come to know so well over the last forty years.
	www.amazon.com /That-Obscure-Object-Desire-Collection/dp/B00005QAPJ (1825 words)

	EUFS: That Obscure Object of Desire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Buñuel, for the last time, explores favourite themes of violence, desire, and denial.
		Like the woman in Buñuel's first feature L'Age d'Or, whose sexual frustration leads her to suck the toes of a statue, Fernando Rey's character is utterly perplexed by the elusive object of his passions; a woman who alternates between a seductive smouldering sensuality and an icy devotion to chastity.
		Buñuel, being a staunch advocate of the uncanny, pulls off the remarkable feat of casting two different women (Angela Molina & Carole Bouquet) in the same central role, one embodying sexual warmth, the other a concerted coldness.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/that_obscure_object_of_desire.html (200 words)

	DVD Talk Review: That Obscure Object of Desire: Criterion
		DVD Talk Review: That Obscure Object of Desire: Criterion
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		The layer change is fairly well placed at 1:04:13.
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	That Obscure Object of Desire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thus begins a surreal game of sexual cat-and-mouse, with Mathieu obsessively attempting to win the girl's affections as she manipulates his carnal desires, each vying to gain absolute control of the other.
		Brimming with the subversive wit which characterizes all of Buñuel's finest work, That Obscure Object of Desire takes satiric aim at a decadent, decaying society riddled by political unrest and moral bankruptcy.
		The picture is absurdist even in its casting -- Rey's dialogue was dubbed by the French actor Michel Piccoli, while the two-faced, hot-and-cold Conchita is played, logically enough, by two different actresses (Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina, respectively), with the character's dialogue spoken by yet a third performer.
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