Simon of the Desert is a fun, little short movie where Buñuel makes fun in his typical way of the hermetic saint Simeon Stylites who spent 37 years living on top of a pillar on a small platform and religious asceticism in general. He is tempted by Satan. My favorite scene is probably where he heals an amputees hands and the first thing that he does is hit his child.
Unfortunately Buñuel ran out of money halfway so the movie just sort of end with Simon stuck in the 60’s in contemporary clothes in a night club. It is fun but it would have been nice to see how it would have ended if the movie had been actually finished. Buñuel appears to have written it as a novel prior to filming it, might offer some answers.
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