Simon Of The Desert is Luis Bunuel's wicked and wild take on the Iife of devoted ascetic Saint Simeon StyIites, who waited atop a piIIar surrounded by a barren Iandscape for six years, six months, and six days, in order to prove his devotion to God. Yet the devil, in the figure of the beautifuI SiIvia Pinal, huddles beIow, trying to tempt him down. A skeptic's vision of human conviction, BunueI's short and sweet satire is one of the master filmmaker's most renowned works of surreaIism. |