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Film Description
Bunuel takes his customary swipes at religion and other social niceties in this comedy of obsession in which a womanizing aristocrat comes to regret having seduced his ward. Rey's performance is as enjoyable as ever. Perfectly cast and beautifully photographed, Bunuel continues his exploration of freedom of choice that is regulated by unconscious desire.
Film Information
| Director | Luis Buñuel | ||||
| Starring | Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Franco Nero
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | Spain / France / Italy | Language | SPANISH | Year | 1970 |
DVD Extras
Both Spanish and French language versions included.
Technical Details
| Certificate | PG | Length | 94 mins | Label | BFI | ||
| Cat No | BFIVD622 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 1.66:1 | ||||
| Subtitles | English. | ||||||
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Review by Barry Forshaw on 23rd April 2005
Starring the wonderful Catherine Deneuve, this is one of the cherishable final flowerings of Luis Bunuel's last period: sharp, sardonic and completely characteristic of the director’s unique vision.
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Review by Michael Brooke on 1st April 2005
The ugly duckling of Luis Buñuel's miraculous late flowering, unfairly overshadowed by Belle de Jour and Discreet Charm, but more unsettling than either. Based on a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, one of Buñuel's favourite writers (he'd earlier turned his Nazarin into a masterpiece), it's a meticulously calibrated study of hypocrisy and obsession, in which the elderly freethinker Don Lope (Fernando Rey) concocts an intellectual justification for gratifying his lust for his ward Tristana (Catherine Deneuve) only to find the tables turned on him when her desires turn out to be far more perverse than he can handle, especially after she has her leg amputated. Buñuel invests this melodramatic tale with a typically merciless eye, augmented with numerous personal touches – Don Lope and Tristana were apparently inspired by the characters (if not the behaviour) of his father and younger sister, while Buñuel himself had recurring dreams of his severed head substituting for the clapper of a church bell, which he turned into one of the film's few overtly Surrealist touches.
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Article - "Catherine Deneuve"
by David Parkinson
Monday 3rd October 2005
Since making her screen debut 49 years ago at the age of 13, Catherine Deneuve has been one of France's most prolific and consistent actresses. Dismayingly few of the near 100 features she has made have reached this country, but a pleasing number are currently availa... View article in full
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