Temple University Cinématheque Resurrected at The Reel Student Cinema

Temple University Cinématheque offers film lovers the opportunity to view films of artistic excellence and historical importance in their intended format. All screenings are presented as 35MM prints on a giant screen in the comfort of a real movie theater!

WEDNESDAY, 22 OCTOBER 2008, 7:30PM
That Obscure Object of Desire
dir. Luis Buñuel, France/Spain, 1977, 102 mins, color, French with English subtitles

Legendary director Luis Buñuel’s final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle his lifelong preoccupation with the darker side of desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his lust for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flare, Buñuel uses two different actresses in the lead— Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn from Pierre Louÿs’ 1898 novel, La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is a dizzying game of sexual politics punctuated by a terror that harkens back to Buñuel’s brilliant surrealistic beginnings. Not to be missed!

Admission is only $4. Two dollars for Temple students with i.d.
Beverages and snacks are available outside the theater at our fully stocked concession counter!

The Reel Student Center Cinema is located in the lower level of the Student Center South
13th Street between Cecil B. Moore and Montgomery Ave (a five minute walk from the Broad Street Subway Line, Cecil B. Moore Station, and the Regional Rail).

For more information contact:
Michael Hartig
michael.hartig@temple.edu
269.806.2932

http://www.temple.edu/mcpb/events.html