Palate cleanser

3 Comments

• Vjmfilms says:

  August 16, 2010 at 12:40 am

  Dunno … this may be my least favor­ite Bunuel film (and I speak as gen­er­ally an admirer of San Luis). Maybe the ori­gin­al nov­el was, in a way, too per­fect a fit for Bunuel – the shoe plot points and details,e.g., are all in the Mirbeau, though Bunuel updates the time peri­od for some ritu­al “fas­cism is bad, man” that really should have been beneath him by this time. It also does­n’t have the sur­real­ity or illo­gic of Bunuel’s best and it feels like one more rote European 60s pot­boil­er, sup­posedly made pro­found by a well-known act­ress tak­ing off her clothes

• Chris O. says:

  August 16, 2010 at 9:49 pm

  Loved this scene and the dis­en­gaged (yet curi­ous) way she plays it.
  Jeanne Moreau… there’s a mem­oir I wish I was read­ing right now.

• Dennis Cozzalio says:

  August 17, 2010 at 1:21 pm

  More, more! My pal­ate isn’t cleansed yet!