Quarantine Watch #297: Simon of the Desert (1965)

This was such an interesting watch and probably my favorite thing I’ve seen of Luis Buñuel’s. Silvia Pinal is AMAZING as the devil who tries to trying to tempt Simon. She embodies all the different people she approaches him so well. Even her tongue feels devilish. The commentary on how people perceive miracles feels so ahead of its time. When he gives the guy a new arm, this should be huge but the crowd acts like entitled people who find out the wifi is out on their flight from Houston to Los Angeles. The ending was really out of nowhere, but I still liked it a lot. The editing and the cinematography are also crazy good.

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