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Luis Buñuel and Pierre Louÿs: Two Visions of Obscure Objects Author(s): Katherine Singer Kovács Source: Cinema Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 87-98 Published by: University of Texas Press on behalf of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1225422 Accessed: 13/01/2010 18:13
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Luis Bunuel and Pierre Louys:Two Visions of Obscure Objects
Katherine Singer Kovdcs

Luis Buniuel'smost recent assault on bourgeois sensibilityis a film with a suggestive and lyrical title, Cet obscur objet du desir. At the beginningof the movie, Buiiuelinformsus that it was "inspired"by PierreLouys's novel