Cet obscur objet du désir
(Blu-ray)

Based on the novel La femme et le pantin by Pierre Louÿs.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1977.

Features: New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Interview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière; Double dames = Lady doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire; Portrait d'un cinéaste impatient, Luis Buñuel = Portrait of an impatient filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, a 2012 documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary; Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli's 1929 silent film La femme et le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louÿs's 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based; Episode of the Belgian television program Le monde du cinema from 1977, featuring Carrière, actor Fernando Rey, and producer Serge Silberman; Conversation from 1977 among many of Buñuel's collaborators, including Carrière, Rey, and actors Julien Bertheau, Muni, and Michel Piccoli; Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack; Trailer; New English subtitle translation.

Director of photography, Edmond Richard ; editor, Helene Plemiannikov.

Fernando Rey, Angela Molina, Carole Bouquet, Julien Bertheau, Andre Weber, Milena Vukotic.

"Luis Buñuel's final film brings full circle the director's lifelong preoccupations with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flair, Buñuel uses two different actors in the latter role--Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Ángela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from the surrealist favorite Pierre Louÿs's classic erotic novel La femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet, 1898), That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harks back to Buñuel's avant-garde beginnings"--Container.

Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); monaural.

French or dubbed English dialogue with optional English subtitles.