More than four decades after he took a razorblade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch-iconoclast Luis Buuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocationsThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desirein which his renegade, free-associating surrealism reached its audacious, self-detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire and his own frequent on-screen alter ego Fernando Rey, Buuel 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 directors most radical works as well as some of his greatest international triumphs, these films cemented his legacy as cinemas most incendiary revolutionary. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New high-definition digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks The Castaway of Providence Street, a 1971 homage to Luis Buuel made by his longtime friends and fellow filmmakers Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo Speaking of Buuel, a documentary from 2000 on Buuels life and work Once Upon a Time: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, a 2011 television program about the making of the film Interviews from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrire on The Phantom of Liberty and That Obscure Object of Desire Archival interviews on all three films featuring Carrire; actors Stphane Audran, Muni, Michel Piccoli, and Fernando Rey; and other key collaborators Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Buuel on five of his final seven films Analysis of The Phantom of Liberty from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and ngela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buuel, a 2012 short documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncellis 1929 silent film La femme et le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louss 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack for That Obscure Object of Desire Trailers New English subtitle translations PLUS: Essays by critic Adrian Martin and novelist and critic Gary Indiana, along with interviews with Buuel by critics Jos de la Colina and Toms Prez Turrent THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE In Luis Buuels deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-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, Buuel and his screenwriting partner Jean-Claude Carrire send a cast of European-film greatsincluding Fernando Rey, Stphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, and Jean-Pierre Casselthrough a maze of desire deferred, frustrated, and interrupted. The Oscar-winning pinnacle of Buuels late-career ascent as a feted maestro of the international art house, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is also one of his most gleefully radical assaults on the values of the ruling class. THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY Luis Buuels 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, The Phantom of Liberty unfolds as a picaresque, its main character traveling between tableaux in a series of Dadaist non sequiturs. Unbound by the laws of narrative logic, Buuel lets his surrealists id run riot in an exuberant revolt against bourgeois rationality that seems telegraphed directly from his unconscious to the screen. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE Luis Buuels final film brings full circle the directors lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flair, Buuel uses two different actors in the latter roleCarole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and ngela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from the surrealist favorite Pierre Louss classic erotic novel La femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet, 1898), That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harks back to Buuels avant-garde beginnings.

• MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 10.72 ounces
• Director : Luis Buuel
• Media Format : Blu-ray, Subtitled
• Release date : January 5, 2021
• Actors : Carole Bouquet, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Fernando Rey
• Subtitles: : English
• Studio : The Criterion Collection
• Country of Origin : USA
• Number of discs : 3