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That Obscure Object of Desire is a 1977 absurdist satirical comedy-drama film directed by Luis Buñuel, based on the 1898 novel The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs. It was Buñuel's final directorial effort before his death in July 1983. Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorist insurgency, the film conveys the story told through a series of flashbacks by an aging Frenchman, Mathieu, who…
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Poster Source Romanticism (or love/affection if I'm being blunt) comes in many shapes. We have seen the simplest form of love in Frank Capra's films (It's A Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night). We have seen a far more complex one in Kim Ki-Duk's films (3-Iron, Bad Boy). But what people want out of their affairs or relationships regardless of their sexes is a question not addressed and explored frequently. In my o…More
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Luis Buñuel , a Spanish film surrealist and "legitimate follower of Freud and Lacan", was born in 1900, and Jacques Lacan, a French psychoanalyst, in 1901. Both grew up in Catholic countries where they attended a Jesuit school, and both were associated with important surrealistic artists of their time. For both of them, the subject of craving has become obsession. But while Lacan analyzes perverse, obsessive craving…More
Luis Buñuel , a Spanish film surrealist and "legitimate follower of Freud and Lacan", was born in 1900, and Jacques Lacan, a French psychoanalyst, in 1901. Both grew up in Catholic countries where they attended a Jesuit school, and both were associated with important surrealistic artists of their time. For both of them, the subject of craving has become obsession. But while Lacan analyzes perverse, obsessive craving…More