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 ✝️🍋

Simon is a dirty beatnik who hangs out on top of a tower until the super-nice townsfolk who didn't know what to get him for a present get him an even taller tower to further inflame his vanity, which he is totally about. Simon is kind of a jerk and only digs laying heavy…

nathaxnne [goodbye <3]

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