Obscure Object Of Desire, That

Six years before his death at age 83, Spanish filmmaker Luis Bunuel completed his final film, a characteristically comic and perverse meditation on longing and desire. Iconic Bunuel star Fernando Rey plays a respectable middle-class widower who becomes hopelessly besotted and repeatedly humiliated by a new maid, a role alternately embodied by two actresses: earthy Angela Molina and frosty Carole Bouquet (in her feature film debut). Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay (Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere) and Best Foreign Language Film.