Among the film world’s brilliant jokers and devoted anarchists, Luis Buñuel has no equal — never will. And in the great, daunting body of the Spanish director’s work, which spans five decades, That ...

"That Obscure Object of Desire" begins with an old man dumping a bucket of water onto a beautiful young woman who approaches him on a train ride. Mathieu (Fernando Rey), who appears to be a refined, ...

Buñuel’s final masterpiece, the story of a teen femme fatal and her middle-aged victim, is blatantly fetishistic (and also a satire of fetishism), an even funnier exercise in frustration than The ...