we a people in love tend to go after the unavailable and that which tempt u but manage to remain maddeningly out of reach and or just within the spectrum of possibility but vanish at the last crucial moment . love be strange and yet we pursue it like the blind lead the blind and move around in circle and no beginning and no end and and with an increase sense of futility . mathieu be one of those men . he be send over the edge by the promise of love and have publicly humiliate a young woman at a train station with a bucket of water a she attempt to board the train he on . passenger share his booth react in horror and but he have his own story to tell . the more he delve into it the less it seem to be about love and the more it look like an obsession fixation with the impossible represent a woman and the very same one he splash with the bucket of water and name conchita and arresting and bewitching and but one who would make a tease seem innocent by comparison . conchita be a horror a woman ugly on the inside a she be allure on the outside . she bring only misery to mathieu and but he can not seem to get rid of her and and she inexplicably return to him over and over again to repeat a cycle of love hate that slowly eat away at him . one moment she kittenish and the next and cold . every time theyre about to reach the moment of sexual communion something happens and or she announce she a virgin a she wear an impenetrable chastity corset to which she have the key . she not above gift . or use her male companion to also rob mathieu of specific amount of money . and on top of that and a soothsayer have the nerve to tell him that he be the one who treat a young woman badly and a an offrend for her service and have him give some coin to a young mother who be carry a tiny pig in her arm like it be a baby . still and the question remain and what do she want with mathieu . she could be a latter day mildred rogers and leech away at the man she despise while manipulate him into a frenzy . she obviously know her own sexual power represent at one moment she lay on top of mathieu and naked and tease him with word and promise a he can only caress her and wish that one day she will relent and literally and let him in . pepper throughout the story be allusion to terrorist attack on the city where mathieu live . while it may just seem a little extra seasoning add to color the story and with bunuel there be no casualty and and inexorably and like in the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie and violence come and literally invade the domestic war that both conchita and mathieu be engage in . bunuel last film be one of the least surrealistic in nature as well a one of the most . it a contradiction and like conchita herself be a contradiction of personality contain within one woman . somehow people who saw this movie be under the assumption and before enter the story and that this would be a more hitchcockian story like vertigo and but in have both carole bouquet and angela molina swap entrance and exit and he manage to convey the most cerebral of his incursion into surrealism . a woman who be really two who be the embodiment of repulsion and desire even when she herself be a prisoner of her own need for tease what good way to have two woman play one . while the cool and reserve and and near frigid bouquet balance one side of the woman and the more emotional and girlish molina pirouette on the other and and in the middle and poor mathieu ( for once and a very sympathetic fernando rey ) and catch in his own struggle and tell his story and unable to go even when he ( justifiably ) beat her at the height of his rage . a more conventional end would have have the two parting way after their physical exchange and but bunuel have other plan and and his last sequence be one that only he could envision for a story about the polarity of love and hate and desire and repulsion .