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Simon Of The Desert Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1965
Director: Luis Buñuel
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Claudio Brook, Enrique Alvarez Félix, Francisco Reiquera, Hortensia Santoveña, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Antonio Bravo, Enrique del Castillo, Silvia Pinal
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: 2009-10-02
Description

Simon of the Desert is 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, in order 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.