There’s a unique quality to the films of director Luis Buñuel’s late period, neither wholly comic nor serious, less cutting than his earlier work, more deadpan and more graceful. That Obscure Object ...

The first thing you’ll probably notice about Luis Buñuel’s final masterpiece, That Obscure Object of Desire, is that the female lead, Conchita, is interchangeably played by two actresses-Carole ...

Thinking about Stanley Kwan’s Lan Yu, I find it impossible to separate the film from a memory of adolescence, one that I sometimes take pleasure in glorifying as a key moment in my cinephilic puberty.

"That Obscure Object of Desire" begins with an old man dumping a bucket of water onto a beautiful young woman who approaches him on a train ride. Mathieu (Fernando Rey), who appears to be a refined, ...

Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man took me back in a quaint way to some resonant lines from the TS Eliot classic “The Hollow Men”. It’s a film that inhabits, as Eliot puts it in his poem, the “shadow” ...

French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, who has penned the scripts for films including The Unbearable Lightness of Being and That Obscure Object of Desire, has died. His daughter Kiara Carrière told ...

Buñuel’s final masterpiece, the story of a teen femme fatal and her middle-aged victim, is blatantly fetishistic (and also a satire of fetishism), an even funnier exercise in frustration than The ...