Tlacuachote

"The Room" by Tommy Wiseau is actually an entertaining movie (for all the wrong reasons). This one is completely unnecessary and boring. The director casting himself as the main character looks much more narcissistic than Wiseau, and his impression of Wiseau is just painful to watch.

This is Buñuel's final film. It is much more straightforward than his previous work ("Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie" and "Le fantôme de la liberté"), but still has some subtle symbolic details. It tells a story of an aging French widower Mathieu pursuing a young Spanish girl Conchita... Or is it Conchita who follows Mathieu?.. It deals with the topic of romantic and sexual frustration. One remarkable detail is that the elusive Conchita is played by two actresses who alternate in different scenes.

The film tells a story of people surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. The title and plot remind me of the proverb "homo homini lupus est"; "a man is a wolf to another man". It is never revealed in the film what really happened, and things are left open to the viewer's imagination, there are only some hints here and there. It is a beautifully photographed, dark and depressive existential drama, but don't expect it to be "entertaining" and full of action. In this sense it's a realistic depiction of what would really happen in a post-apocalyptic world.