That Obscure Object of Desire
That Obscure Object of Desire  is a 1977 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 (played by Fernando Rey), who recounts falling in love with a beautiful young Spanish woman, Conchita (played interchangeably by two actresses, Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina), who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires.
In recent years, the film has been highly acclaimed by critics.
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés( 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish- born Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain.
When Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in" The New York Times" called him" an iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary who was a leader of avant- garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later".
His first picture," Un Chien Andalou" —made in the silent era—was called" the most famous short film ever made" by critic Roger Ebert, and his last film," That Obscure Object of Desire" —made 48 years later—won him Best Director awards from the National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics.
Writer Octavio Paz called Buñuel's work" the marriage of the film image to the poetic image, creating a new reality ... scandalous and subversive".
Often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s, Buñuel created films from the 1920s through the 1970s.
His work spans two continents, three languages, and an array of genres, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, satire, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western.
Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it," Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films".
Seven of Buñuel's films are included in" Sight& Sound"< nowiki>'</ nowiki >s 2012 critics' poll of the top 250 films of all time.
Fifteen of his films are included in the" They Shoot Pictures, Do n't They?" list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time, for which he ranks second only to Jean- Luc Godard, with sixteen, and he ranks number 13 on their list of the top 250 directors.
Submission (1976 film)
Submission( aka" Scandal") is an Italian film filmed in technicolor and directed by Salvatore Samperi based on his own script written in collaboration with Ottavio Jemma, according to Samperi.
It belongs to the drama and erotic genres and had as principal actors Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Raymond Pellegrin and Andréa Ferréol.
Blue Angel Cafe
Blue Angel Cafe (Also known as: Object of Desire), is a 1989 Italian erotic film directed by Joe D'Amato.
Law of Desire
Law of Desire or La ley del deseo( in original Spanish) is a 1987 film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
Starring Eusebio Poncela as Pablo, Carmen Maura as Tina and Antonio Banderas as Antonio.
It was the first film Almodóvar made independently with his own production company" El Deseo".
The story focuses on a complex love triangle between two men and a trans woman.
Pablo, a successful gay film director, disappointed in his relationship with his young lover, Juan, concentrates in a new project, a monologue starring his transsexual sister, Tina.
Antonio, an uptight young man, falls possessively in love with the director and in his passion would stop at nothing to obtain the object of his desire.
The relationship between Pablo and Antonio is at the core of the film, however, the story and own drama of Pablo's sister, Tina, plays a strong role in the plot.
Shot in the later part of 1986," Law of Desire" was Almodóvar's first work centered in homosexual relationships.
He considers" Law of Desire" the key film in his life and career.
It follows the more serious tone set by Almodóvar's previous film," Matador", exploring the unrestrained force of desire.
It s themes are: love, loss, gender, family, sexuality and the close link between life and art.
" Law of Desire" was met with general positive reactions from film critics, and it was a hit with audiences becoming Almodóvar's most successful film up to that point.
It toured many international film festival, winning the Teddy Award in Berlin and it made Almodóvar known internationally.
Elements from" Law of Desire" grew into the basis for two later films: Carmen Maura appears in a stage production of Cocteau's" The Human Voice", which inspired Almodóvar's next film," Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown"; and Tina's confrontation scene with an abusive priest formed a partial genesis for" Bad Education".
Fernando Rey
Fernando Casado Arambillet( 20 September 1917 – 9 March 1994), best known as Fernando Rey, was a Spanish film, theatre, and television actor, who worked in both Europe and the United States.
A suave, international actor best known for his roles in the films of surrealist director Luis Buñuel(" Tristana", 1970;" Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie", 1972;" That Obscure Object of Desire", 1977) and as the drug lord Alain Charnier in" The French Connection"( 1971) and" French Connection II"( 1975), he appeared in more than 150 films over half a century.
The debonair Rey was described by" French Connection" producer Philip D'Antoni as" the last of the Continental guys".
He achieved his greatest fame after he turned 50:" Perhaps it is a pity that my success came so late in life", he told the" Los Angeles Times It might have been better to have been successful while young, like El Cordobés in the bullring.
Then your life is all before you to enjoy it."
Yourself and Yours
Yourself and Yours is a 2016 South Korean drama film directed by Hong Sang- soo.
The film was screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
The plot revolves around the couple Yeong- soo( played by Kim Joo-hyuk) and Min-jeong( played by Lee Yoo-young).
After a fight between them, they decide to take a break in their relationship.
The next day, Min-jeong vanishes without a trace.
Instead a woman shows up looking exactly like Min-jeong.
She seems interested in looking for" Mr. Right" and dating every man in the town where they live.
One day Min- jeong returns.
In his review for" Variety", Scott Tobias described the plot as an" inspired reversal" of the film" That Obscure Object of Desire".
Salvatore Samperi
Salvatore Samperi( 26 July 1944 – 4 March 2009) was an Italian film director.
His 1973 film" Malicious" was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival and his 1979 film" Ernesto" was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.
Diary of a Chambermaid (1964 film)
Diary of a Chambermaid is a 1964 French- Italian drama film.
It is one of several French films made by Spanish- born filmmaker Luis Buñuel.
Though highly satirical and reflective of his typical anti-bourgeoisie sentiments, it is one of Buñuel's more realistic films, generally avoiding the outlandish surrealist imagery and far- fetched plot twists found in many of his other works.
It stars Jeanne Moreau as a chambermaid whose attractiveness is apparent to owners and to servants alike—her femininity charms some, at the same time it brings out jealousy( or admiration) in others of the household and among adjacent neighbors.
The maid's predicament, in this light, develops her as a character with some autonomy, and with some powers that derive from the narrative context— which is a social setting of corruption, violence, sexual obsession and perversion.
Just off the train from Paris, the chambermaid steps into a waiting buggy from the chateau, its driver already eyeing her, with designs that he expresses by remarking on her shoes.
This was the first screenwriting collaboration between Buñuel and Jean- Claude Carrière, which would later produce his well- known" Belle de Jour"( 1967)," The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"( 1972) and" That Obscure Object of Desire"( 1977).
The two extensively reworked the 1900 novel of the same name by Octave Mirbeau, that had been given a more literal treatment in its second film adaptation, made in Hollywood in 1946, directed by Jean Renoir.
The novel has been adapted for the screen a third time in Benoît Jacquot's 2015 version.
Serge Silberman
Serge Silberman( 1 May 1917 – 22 July 2003) was a French film producer.
Silberman was born in Łódź, then a part of the Regency Kingdom of Poland in a Jewish family.
During World
War II Silberman survived Nazi concentration camps and eventually settled in Paris.
One of his first works as a film producer was Jean- Pierre Melville's 1955 film" Bob the Gambler", a precursor to the French New Wave movement.
Silberman's most notable collaborations were with the surrealist film director Luis Buñuel.
The pair, along with screenwriter Jean- Claude Carrière, who Silberman introduced to Buñuel, worked together on a number of films, starting with the 1964 film" Diary of a Chambermaid".
Silberman produced most of Buñuel's late films, including the Academy Award winner" The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" in 1972 and the director's very last film" That Obscure Object of Desire" in 1977.
Silberman had founded his own production company, Greenwich Film Productions, in 1966.
The company was responsible for the production of over 15 films.
In 1981, Silberman produced his most financially successful film, Jean- Jacques Beineix's" Diva".
The film was not well received in the country of its origin, France, but became a box- office hit abroad.
The money gained from the movie enabled Silberman to provide funding for Akira Kurosawa's ambitious 1985 film" Ran", which at the time of its making was the most expensive Japanese film ever.
Silberman was awarded an honorary César Award in 1988.
He died in Paris in 2003 at the age of 86.

Question: Do both films Submission (1976 Film) and That Obscure Object Of Desire have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no