Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel “La Femme et le Pantin,” on which THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE is based, has been adapted for the screen six times. A 1929 version by French filmmaker Jacques de Baroncelli was seen by Luis Buñuel in his formative years as a filmmaker. The following three scenes demonstrate Baroncelli’s faithfulness to Louÿs’s text.