Underplayed Gems

La Femme aux bottes rouges (1974)

La Femme aux bottes rouges poster
Directed by
Juan Luis Buñuel
Genre
drama film, comedy film, fantasy film
Country
France, Italy, Spain
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 25 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young writer named Francoise can make her wishes come true. She gets entangled with a wealthy art patron and a middle-aged man caught between them.

surrealwhimsicalplayfuldreamlikeabsurdlightheartedmetaunpredictable

What happens

The Woman in Red Boots (French: La Femme aux bottes rouges, Italian: La ragazza con gli stivali rossi, Spanish: La mujer con botas rojas) is a 1974 fantasy comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Juan Luis Buñuel. The film stars Catherine Deneuve as a beautiful young writer with the power to make her wishes reality whose life becomes entangled with the plots of the wealthy art patron Perrot, played by Fernando Rey. The film is highly surrealistic and tinged with a metanarrative, with the characters roughly representing divisions of the art world: the raw creative power of young Françoise, the heroine who has nearly unlimited potential; the cynical manipulation and distant intellectualism of the elder Perrot; and the middle-aged Marc (Adalberto Maria Merli), trapped in the middle and forced to choose. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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