# Simon of the Desert (1965)

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**Original title**: *Simón del desierto*
**Runtime**: 45 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Luis Buñuel
**Written by**: Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro
**Starring**: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santoveña, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Francisco Reiguera, Luis Aceves Castañeda

> *Sacrifice and Temptation*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A desert ascetic’s spiritual Zoom call with the heavens is interrupted by the devil’s Slack messages. Forty feet up a pillar in 5th-century Syria, Simon waits for a sign neither God nor the tempter seems eager to send. Six takes later, the reels run out.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, cerebral, pitch-black, surreal

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