SIMON OF THE DESERT (1965)

LUIS BUNUEL

Drama Religion 1st - 9th Centuries 1960s Art House Desert Recommended Surrealist/surrealism

Cast

SILVIA PINAL CLAUDIO BROOK HORTENSIA SANTOVENA JESUS FERNANDEZ ALVAREX FELIX

Plot

Simon Stylites, to be nearer to God, has perched on a pillar for years and provided an inspiration to the surrounding people and a resolute defiance to the temptations, including a very tempting Silvia Pinal, of the Devil. However the Devil gets the last laugh after transporting him to a modern-day New York night-club. Wonderfully blasphemous.