Image of the day, 10/29/09 (Special "Well, THAT isn't very nice" Edition)

A ballsy Georges Marchal gives his greet­ings to the loc­al author­it­ies in Death in the Garden, a 1956 Luis Buñuel oddity from right before his second great peri­od. Why oddity? It’s a French-Mexican cop­ro­duc­tion shot in Mexico, from a French-language script in part by the great Raymond Queneau. Not a great favor­ite of the maes­tro’s: “The pro­duc­tion was tor­ture,” he tells De La Colina and Turrent in the indis­pens­ible inter­view book Objects of Desire, and then he elab­or­ates. I haven’t been able to watch this in its entirety yet, and I’ll have more to say about it when I do; in the mean­time, I sure do get a kick out of this shot.