Pauline Kael The New Yorker Sep 18, 2023

The special quality of Bunuel’s late, storyteller’s style is that there are no layers, nothing hidden; that’s what makes it so serene.

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Dennis Harvey 48 Hills Jul 18, 2023

She may be a maddening sphinx—but Buñuel seems to suggest that his alter ego does, indeed, deserve just such treatment.

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Kevin Kouns Gay Community News (Boston) Aug 18, 2022

Anyone who does not understand that this is comedy of manners, and that Bunuel’s slant is distinctly Marxist, will naturally find the film mostly incoherent.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Jan 24, 2021 3/4

If this sounds rather conventional for Buñuel, be aware that the role of the temptress is played by not one but two actresses.

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Christopher Lloyd The Film Yap Jan 11, 2021 3/5

Luis Buñuel's final film is regarded as a masterpiece but disappoints as shallow, vaguely sexist look at a cursed romance between a rich old Frenchman and a teen tease played by two different actresses.

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Jesús Fernández Santos El Pais (Spain) Jul 30, 2019

This is a cheerful, brilliant, contemporary, and fun story that if it weren't for the director's name, one could say it was made by a young person, considering its newness. [Full Review in Spanish]

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Michael Wood The New York Review of Books Apr 4, 2018

Buuel...offers neither nostalgia nor wisdom, but an engaging practical example of the art of accepting defeat without learning to expect it.

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Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm Feb 17, 2017 3/4

I could watch Fernando Rey squirm for hours, so amusing are the aristocratically clownish expressions on his face.

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John Wells The Spectator Aug 4, 2015

[Bunuel] remains as brilliantly in control of his own emotions as he does of the process of making the film.

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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Jul 27, 2012 4/4

[Bunuel's] film is filled with small, droll touches, with tiny peculiarities of behavior, with moral anarchy, with a cynicism about human nature that somehow seems, in his hands, almost cheerful.

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Mar 24, 2010 A+

Buuel finenesses the unrequited love between his characters with such a command of cinematic spontaneity and humanity that you could watch it a hundred times. Genius.

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Gabe Leibowitz Film and Felt Oct 10, 2009 82/100

Only Buuel can make coldness burn with intoxicating sensuality.

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Jul 24, 2009 B

The swan song film for the legendary Spanish filmmaker.

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Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star May 6, 2007 4/4

Buuel made often perverse, always subversive films that drew protests, bans and undying appreciation from colleagues.

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Mark Pfeiffer Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema Jul 12, 2005 A-

That Obscure Object of Desire is an intoxicating descent into one man's experience of the emotional terrorism intended to shake him from his ways.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Jun 16, 2005 5/5

Bunuel's swan song, his 30th feature, is one of his finest, a surreal fable that's inventive with its double casting.

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Daniel M. Kimmel Worcester Telegram & Gazette Jul 28, 2004 5/5

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Jonathan R. Perry Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) Jun 22, 2004 4/5

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Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS) Mar 8, 2004 4/5

In the second rank of Bunuelian delights.

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Nov 15, 2003 4/5

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