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Considered one of the high points of his career and his final film, Luis Buñuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire is an elegantly outrageous exploration of sexual obsession starring Fernando Rey as a wealthy middle-aged widower enslaved by his passion for his young Spanish maid, Conchita.

Mischievous as ever, and with impeccable surreal logic, Buñuel casts two contrasting actresses as Conchita, and alternates them without warning. That the smitten widower notices nothing amiss — he does not detect the difference — suggests just how foul his amour is, how obscure his object of desire. If this two-in-one femme fatale weren’t trouble enough, the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus launches a few terrorist attacks to illustrate that sex and subversion are often the same thing, and can be equally destructive. “Supreme.” - TIFF

M | Adult concepts