Cet Obscur Objet du Désir That Obscure Object of Desire Luis Buñuel [videorecording]=

Special features include:
[The Criterion Collection]
- Video interview with the screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere
- Interview with director Luis Buñuel
- Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli's 1929 silent film, La Femme et le Pantin, an alternative film adaption of the book which Buñuel based his film

[Buñuel: The Essential Collection]
- Interview with Carlos Saura
- The Arbitrariness Of Desire by Jean-Claude Carriere
- Lady Double - Interview with Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina
- Portrait Of An Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel - Interview with Pierre Lady and Edmond Richard
- Interview with Jean-Claude Carriere
- Aesthetics Of The Irrational: ICA Q&A with Jean-Claude Carriere and Diego Buñuel hosted by Tim Robey

From case cover:
[The Criterion Collection]
Luis Buñuel's final film explodes with eroticism, bringing full circle the director's lifelong preoccupation with the darker side if desire. Buñuel regular Fernando Rey plays Mathieu, an urbane widower, tortured by his list for the elusive Conchita. With subversive flare, Buñuel uses two different actresses in the lead role --- Carole Bouquet, a sophisticated French beauty, and Angela Molina, a Spanish coquette. Drawn for 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.

[Buñuel: The Essential Collection]
Adapted from Pierre Louÿs' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire marked Buñuel's final film which received two Academy Award nominations. Recounted in flashbacks to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly details the romantic perils of Mathieu (Fernando Rey), a wealthy, middle-aged French sophisticate who falls desperately in love with his 19-year-old former chambermaid Conchita (Carole Bouquet). Thus begins a surreal game of sexual cat-and-mouse, with Mathieu obsessively attempting to win the girl's affections as she manipulates his carnal desires, each vying to gain absolute control of the other. Brimming with the subversive wit which characteristics Buñuel's finest work, That Obscure Object of Desire takes satiric aim at a decadent, decaying society riddled with political unrest and moral bankruptcy.

From IMDb:
Just after boarding a train, much to the surprise of his fellow passengers, a man pours a bucket of water over a young girl on the platform. Over the next few hours he explains (and we see in flashback) how he became obsessed by her (so much so that he failed to notice that she was played by two different actresses, representing different sides of her personality), and how she tantalised him, but would never allow him to satisfy his desire for her...

The Criterion Collection version:
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC, 1080p; Regions 1-6; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

Buñuel: The Essential Collection version:
Blu-ray video; DTS HD 1.0; monaural; 1080p; Regions B; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

The Criterion Collection version:
French audio. Optional English dubbed track. Optional English subtitles.

Buñuel: The Essential Collection version:
French or English audio. Optional English subtitles.