Cinematheque: LACIS Festival de Cine
Simon of the Desert (Simon del Desierto)
Event Details
Date
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Time
9:15 p.m.
Location
Cinematheque, room 4070, Vilas Hall
Description
Luis Buñuel’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 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, Buñuel’s short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker’s most renowned works of surrealism (Mexico, 1965, 35mm, b/w, 45 min.)
Cost
Free
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