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By Mark Pfeiffer (406) for Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema (402) on 11 Jul 2005

That Obscure Object of Desire is an intoxicating descent into one man's experience of the emotional terrorism intended to shake him from his ways…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 15 Jun 2005

Bunuel's swan song, his 30th feature, is one of his finest, a surreal fable that's inventive with its double casting…

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By David K (1,644) on 18 Nov 2004

[b]THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE [/b](Bunuel, 1977) I've made the observation that Bunuel is like Fellini with an actual sense of storytelling…

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By Selena H (9) on 17 Oct 2004

Okay, apparently my film teacher ruined for our class by telling us the twist first…

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By Jake Euker (172) for F5 (Wichita, KS) (139) on 08 Mar 2004

In the second rank of Bunuelian delights…

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By Derek Smith (382) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 22 Jul 2003

It may not be Luis Bunuel's best film, but this is probably his most complete statement on sexual relations and the dark side of desire…

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By John A. Nesbit (472) for Old School Reviews (429) on 15 Oct 2002

Buñuel's pot shots in That Object of Desire are well-planned provocative scenarios that show just how difficult it is to understand sexual desires…

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By Michael W. Phillips, Jr. (528) for Goatdog's Movies (527) on 28 Feb 2002

One might call it a gimmick, but I saw it as a stroke of genius…

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By Gary Dowell (222) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 24 Jan 2002

One of the director's later works, That Obscure Object of Desire, examines the puzzle of sexual politics…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 27 Nov 2001

Like many of Buñuel's works, a perversely funny film, especially in the way he undercuts conventional notions of both romance and cinema…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 15 Aug 2001

The lightness with which Buñuel was able to insert the little jokes and knife stabs of surrealism he loved so much is, in fact, divine…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 01 Jan 2000

The film culminates with a brilliant last shot for Buñuel's last movie -- a fitting end for a man who offended, tantalized, entertained, and…

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