"Cet obscur objet du Désir"
Luis Bunuel’s last film is based on Pierre Louÿs’ La Femme et le Pantin. This now forgotten bestseller, published in 1898, is drawn from Goya s painting El Pelele, in which four women are playing with a male puppet. In Pierre Louÿs’ novel this scene is inverted so that one woman with two faces plays...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade de São Paulo
1996-09-01
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| Series: | Significação: Revista de Cultura Audiovisual |
| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.usp.br/significacao/article/view/90516 |