Adapted from Pierre Louÿs's classic erotic novel The Woman and the Puppet, Luis Buñuel's final film is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by surrealist terror, starring Fernando Rey as an urbane widower tortured by his lust for an elusive woman (played by both Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina).
Adapted from Pierre Louÿs's classic erotic novel The Woman and the Puppet, Luis Buñuel's final film is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by surrealist terror, starring Fernando Rey as an urbane widower tortured by his lust for an elusive woman (played by both Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina).
