Question: Which film has the director born first, That Obscure Object Of Desire or Hope Springs (2012 Film)?

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." <SEP> 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. Luis Buñuel Portolés( 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish- born Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico and Spain. 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. <SEP> David Frankel( born April 2, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. <SEP> The film was released on August 8, 2012. It received generally positive reviews, and the cast was praised for their performances. It was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a People's Choice Award. Hope Springs is a 2012 American romantic comedy- drama directed by David Frankel, written by Vanessa Taylor and starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell. <SEP> 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. <SEP> 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".