The special quality of Bunuel’s late, storyteller’s style is that there are no layers, nothing hidden; that’s what makes it so serene.

| Sep 18, 2023

She may be a maddening sphinx—but Buñuel seems to suggest that his alter ego does, indeed, deserve just such treatment.

| Jul 18, 2023

Anyone who does not understand that this is comedy of manners, and that Bunuel’s slant is distinctly Marxist, will naturally find the film mostly incoherent.

| Aug 18, 2022

If this sounds rather conventional for Buñuel, be aware that the role of the temptress is played by not one but two actresses.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2021

Luis Buñuel's final film is regarded as a masterpiece but disappoints as shallow, vaguely sexist look at a cursed romance between a rich old Frenchman and a teen tease played by two different actresses.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2021

This is a cheerful, brilliant, contemporary, and fun story that if it weren't for the director's name, one could say it was made by a young person, considering its newness. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 30, 2019

Buuel...offers neither nostalgia nor wisdom, but an engaging practical example of the art of accepting defeat without learning to expect it.

| Apr 4, 2018

I could watch Fernando Rey squirm for hours, so amusing are the aristocratically clownish expressions on his face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2017

[Bunuel] remains as brilliantly in control of his own emotions as he does of the process of making the film.

| Aug 4, 2015

[Bunuel's] film is filled with small, droll touches, with tiny peculiarities of behavior, with moral anarchy, with a cynicism about human nature that somehow seems, in his hands, almost cheerful.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 27, 2012

Buuel finenesses the unrequited love between his characters with such a command of cinematic spontaneity and humanity that you could watch it a hundred times. Genius.

| Original Score: A+ | Mar 24, 2010

Only Buuel can make coldness burn with intoxicating sensuality.

| Original Score: 82/100 | Oct 10, 2009

The swan song film for the legendary Spanish filmmaker.

| Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2009

Buuel made often perverse, always subversive films that drew protests, bans and undying appreciation from colleagues.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 6, 2007

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.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 12, 2005

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

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 16, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 28, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2004

In the second rank of Bunuelian delights.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2003