{"product_id":"aba-blu-bunuel004-71551","title":"Three Films By Luis Bunuel (BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eUn chien andalou,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e arch-iconoclast Luis Buñuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocations—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat Obscure Object of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—in which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and his own frequent on-screen alter ego Fernando Rey, Buñuel laced his scathing attacks on religion, class pretension, and moral hypocrisy with savage violence to create a trio of subversive, brutally funny masterpieces that explore the absurd randomness of existence. Among the director’s most radical works as well as some of his greatest international triumphs, these films cemented his legacy as cinema’s most incendiary revolutionary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-middle-class sextet sits down to a dinner that is continually delayed, their attempts to eat thwarted by vaudevillian events both actual and imagined, including terrorist attacks, military maneuvers, and ghostly apparitions. Stringing together a discontinuous, digressive series of absurdist set pieces, Buñuel and his screenwriting partner Jean-Claude Carrière send a cast of European-film greats—including Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Bulle Ogier—through a maze of desire deferred, frustrated, and interrupted. The Oscar-winning pinnacle of Buñuel’s late-career ascent as a feted maestro of the international art house, \u003cem\u003eThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie\u003c\/em\u003e is also one of his most gleefully radical assaults on the values of the ruling class.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Castaway of Providence Street,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea 1971 homage to Luis Buñuel made by his longtime friends and fellow filmmakers Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSpeaking of Buñuel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea documentary from 2000 on Buñuel’s life and work by José Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time: “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,”\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea 2011 television program about the making of the film\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpisode of the French television program\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePour le cinéma\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efrom 1972 that features behind-the-scenes footage of Buñuel on set, along with interviews with the director and with actors Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Bulle Ogier, Fernando Rey, and Delphine Seyrig\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Phantom of the Liberty:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLuis Buñuel’s vision of the inherent absurdity of human social rituals reaches its taboo-annihilating extreme in what may be his most morally subversive and formally audacious work. Zigzagging across time and space, from the Napoleonic era to the present day, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Phantom of Liberty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e unfolds as a picaresque, its characters traveling between tableaux in a series of Dadaist non sequiturs. Unbound by the laws of narrative logic, Buñuel lets his surrealist’s id run riot in an exuberant revolt against bourgeois rationality that seems telegraphed directly from his unconscious to the screen.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnalysis of the film from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpisode of the French television series\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePour le cinéma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom 1974 featuring actors Michel Piccoli and Jean-Claude Brialy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpisode of the French television program\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe dernier des cinq\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efrom 1974 featuring Brialy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocumentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Luis Buñuel on five of the director’s final seven films\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat Obscure Object of Desire:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLuis Buñuel’s final film brings full circle the director’s lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flair, Buñuel uses two different actors in the latter role—Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Ángela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from the surrealist favorite Pierre Louÿs’s classic erotic novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa femme et le pantin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Woman and the Puppet,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 1898), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat Obscure Object of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harks back to Buñuel’s avant-garde beginnings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLady Doubles,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat Obscure Object of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003ePortrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ea 2012 documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExcerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa femme el le pantin,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ean adaptation of Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel of the same name, on which\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat Obscure Object of Desire\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis also based\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpisode of the Belgian television program\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLe monde du cinema\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom 1977, featuring Carrière, actor Fernando Rey, and producer Serge Silberman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConversation from 1977 among many of Buñuel’s collaborators, including Carrière, Rey, and actors Julien Bertheau, Muni, and Michel Piccoli\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlternate English-dubbed soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrailer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unobstructed View","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41280887226568,"sku":"CC3211BD","price":132.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/8486\/3688\/products\/bunuel.jpg?v=1642291338","url":"https:\/\/videomatica.com\/es\/products\/aba-blu-bunuel004-71551","provider":"Videomatica Ltd (since 1983)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}