That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
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Luis Bunuel , the Spanish surrealist, once made a film in which two actresses played the same role interchangeably, in the appropriately titled " That Obscure Object of Desire " (1977).
…director Florian Zeller (who is directing from a screenplay he and Christopher Hampton developed based on his stage play) borrows an idea from Luis Bunuel’s That Obscure Object of Desire by having multiple actors play the same role.