Simon of the Desert (Criterion Collection)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 45 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Claudio Brook | |
Performer: | Silvia Pinal & Hortensia Santovena | |
Directed by | Luis Buñuel | |
Screenwriting by | Julio Alejandro & Luis Buñuel | |
Composition by | Raúl Lavista | |
Produced by | Gustavo Alatriste | |
Director of Photography: | Gabriel Figueroa |
Entertainment Reviews:
Buñuel's wit is piercingly sharp, his timing impeccable, and his visual style superbly unobtrusive and naturalistic -- proving again how much realism is required in surrealism.
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Chicago Reader
Far from mocking his penitent protagonist, Buñuel values his tenacity of belief even while seeing his sacrifice as a useless monument
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CinePassion
Rating: 10/10 --
Atheists make such good religious films (because) they tend to think about God all the time.
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Movie Metropolis
This is one of my favorite Bunuels, simply because it gets right to the point; he doesn't have time to beat around the bush.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/5 --
Top-flight Bunuel
Film Journal International
Rating: 4/5 --
a perfect introduction for Buñuel neophytes to begin to find their way through the filmmaker's devious groove
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 5/5 --
One of Buñuel's richest and most complex films.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
Luis Buñuel's biting jab at the futility of asceticism and repentence is a surreal fable in his inimitable style. Simon, a 5th-century ascetic, stands on a pillar in the middle of the desert for three decades in a worthless quest to achieve enlightenment. Satan, in a variety of disguises, futilely tries to tempt him to descend from his post. And finally one of these embodiments -- an alluring blonde -- gets so disgusted and bored with his endless babbling that she forcibly and irreverently dumps him into a Manhattan discotheque.
Product Description:
Simon of the Desert is Luis Bunuel's wicked and wild take on the life of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon Stylites, who waited atop a pillar surrounded by a barren landscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautiful Silvia Pinal, huddles below, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic's vision of human conviction, Bunuel's short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker's most renowned works of surrealism.
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