Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien Bertheau. Originally released as a motion picture in 1977. Special features: "Arbitrary desire" (interview with Jean-Claude Carrière ; interview with Carlos Saura ; Double dames (interviews with Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina) ; "A portrait of a Luis Buñuel" (interview with Pierre Lary and Edmond Richard).
Summary:
Luis Bunuel's final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle to the director's lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Bunuel regular Fernando Rey plays Matthieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flare, Bunuel uses two different actresses in the lead role: Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from Pierre Louys's 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin.
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