Nagisa Oshima was like this before, although "Shinjuku Mud Stick Diary" made me a little confused. Hitchcock too, it was a very pleasant process. I watched "The Charm of the Bourgeoisie" on guard a few days ago, and I didn't expect to like it, so I wanted to cut off all the Buñuel stuff I could find. I remember that I also bought his other works, the female trilogy series, but I don't know where they are scattered, so I hope that someday luck will guide me to that dusty corner.
"Hazy Desire" is a better movie. Buñuel has returned to more normal storytelling in his later years, but his surreal parody won't die down. The most special technique in this film is to deliberately use two different actresses to play the heroine Conchita. One of them is the famous French actor Carole Bouquet, one of the most beautiful actresses in history. Bond girl, "Top Secret" episode, most recently "Green Mustard Detective." Another is Ángela Molina, a Spanish actor that Almodóvar likes to use, who plays the sensual, cunning side of Conchita and her forte, flamenco. And Carole Bouquet, who is peerless and elegant in every gesture, plays the innocent and sad side of Conchita. It felt very strange, the exchange between the two had no premonition, often Ángela Molina had just walked into the bathroom with a sense of style, and came out the melancholy Carole Bouquet. The experience comes from Buñuel's own life, saying: "I have lived with my wife for 40 years, but sometimes I feel like she is another person. A woman is not always the same, but has Many faces."
Another special place is that there is a sack, which first appeared in the movie and was carried by a beggar, and then somehow got into the hands of the male protagonist, and he also carried it in and out of various luxurious places. The sack and the shot of the woman in the blood-filling suit at the end of the movie (the composition of the picture is said to be imitating Vermeer, the famous Dutch painter, and there is the same scene in "An Andalusian Dog") have become the two biggest mysteries of the film for decades. The director himself explained this: "Filming these made me very excited, and I can't tell why, maybe it will always be mysterious." Halo. This old thing :)
The rest is easy to understand, the plot basis of this film is actually a silent film called La femme et le pantin by Jacques de Baroncelli, the striptease and the humiliation are completely photographed A situational remake of a silent film, the disc I kept contains clips of the original film, very precious information, which is interesting to compare. But Buñuel overlaid it with a bewildering and sentimental love story, adding more sense and understanding of desire or possession.
Buñuel is Oscar's favorite art film director, and the film was nominated for several Oscars and Caesars that year.
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