35mm print (color, sound) 100 min. Italy. Miramax Films
“Buñuel first resisted taking on the project offered to him by the producers, the Hakim brothers, to direct a film based on a book by Joseph Kessel and starring an actress already under contract, Deneuve. He found the book melodramatic and the leading lady uncertain. When the producers promised him not only complete freedom but the ability to work with screenwriter Carrière, Buñuel agreed and made what is perhaps the most brazenly ambiguous film in the wide culture of world cinema. The privileged wife of a noted doctor, the elegant Sévérine, frigid in all her humane aspects, unbeknownst to her husband, is each afternoon the star attraction of a very discreet brothel. How many of Sévérine's activities are reveries and how many actually take place even Buñuel cannot answer. ‘By the end, the real and imaginary fuse. ... For me they form the same thing.’” (Luis Bunuel, Press Release)
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