"With greater freedom and greater rigor, Bu-uel's adaptation of the Pierre Louys novel investigates, demonstrates the perverse relations between the sexes, their mutual incomprehension. Although in Obscure Object woman rebels against her objectification, she does so without consciousness of her own subjectivity, and without a language superior to her failing master's. Thus she frustrates him without satisfying herself. If, for Mathieu, Conchita is an elusive object (he fails t notice that two women appear under the one name), Conchita's desire remains a mystery to herself, as compromised and hypocritical as the film's other rebels, the terrorist Guerrilla Army of the Infant Jesus." --James Brook, "Surrealism," PFA '82