US$ 70.00
renowned director Ann Hui takes a deeply humanistic approach to a harrowing and urgent subject with searing contemporary resonance
even though
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with a cast drawn from his beloved troupe of regulars
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Maitland McDonagh and an excerpt from film scholar Joan Mellen’s 1972 interview with Shindo
Three Films by Luis Buñuel noir renowned director Ann Hui takesMore than four decades after he took a razor blade to an eyeball and shocked the world with Un chien andalou, arch iconoclast Luis Buuel capped his astonishing career with three final provocationsThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desirein which his renegade, free associating surrealism reached its audacious, self detonating endgame. Working with such key collaborators as screenwriter Jean Claude