Simon of the Desert (1965)

satan seems like a good hang

Karsten

Get thee on the dance floor, Satan.

Michael Strenski

Robert Beksinski's #8 Film Selection for Edgar Loosely based on the real story Saint Simeon Stylites, a 5th Century Syriac ascetic saint who achieved fame for living 37 years on a small platform on top of a pillar near Aleppo in Syria, Buñuel's Simón del Desierto has…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Me, an introvert: I always had a feeling hell would be something like a crowded nightclub filled with people dancing a dance called "radioactive flesh"

𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕞 𝕧𝕒𝕟 𝕕𝕖𝕣 ℤ𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕟

Simon of the Desert is a satirical abstract art film about religion, and as you might expect coming from the enigmatic surrealist director Luis Buñuel, there's a lot of dense material here that's difficult to unpack in a single viewing. The script is filled with theological…

ScreeningNotes

RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI ACTION! - LUIS BUNUEL: BETWEEN SOCIAL REALISM AND SURREALISM Simon read the Bible and said he wanted to have the John the Baptist diet. That’s a choice. Buñuel is very much in his element here, poking fun at a particular brand of blind…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Simon of the Desert is an allegory with a harsh view of Christianity. It depicts religious devotion as extreme, an unnecessary demand of God. Simón stays on a pillar but the people who pass him by continue their lives. His sacrifice and resistance to temptation becomes…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

Temptation is Hell. Luis Buñuel’s heightened, critical and loosely-adapted take on the fable of 4th-century Syrian saint Simeon Stylites (his son portrayed here by Claudio Brook) revels in the goading of an ascetic saint by way of lechery and other earthly pleasures by…

Jerry

Una sátira a la vida misma, donde la tentación se impone cada día, persistente y vigente, como reflejo del hedonismo que antes se vivía en carne y calle, y que ahora se ha condensado en la palma de la mano, gracias a la tecnología.

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