The final film by iconoclastic arthouse auteur Luis Buñuel!
As terrorists bomb Seville, worldly Mathieu Faber (Fernando Rey) boards the Paris train, promptly dumping a bucket of water on a young woman trying to board. As his fellow passengers look on aghast, Faber proceeds to explain “the worst of all women.” Faber’s encounter with his maid Conchita (Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina), who will never allow him to consummate his passion, is made doubly bizarre by Buñuel’s matter of fact casting of two actresses; and by the lack of reaction from Faber and the rest of the cast to their seeming interchangeability. (Rialto Pictures)
“Triumphantly funny and wise!” – Vincent Canby, The New York Times
