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A husband's suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.
Cast
- Arturo de Córdova
- Delia Garcés
- Aurora Walker
- Carlos Martínez Baena
- Manuel Dondé
- Rafael Banquells
- Fernando Casanova
- José Pidal
- Roberto Meyer
- Luis Beristáin
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- Jan 16, 2026
RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI ACTION! - LUIS BUNUEL: BETWEEN SOCIAL REALISM AND SURREALISM A tale of obsession, raging jealousy, and straight-up gaslighting, following a man who’s willing to go to absolutely insane lengths to get what he wants. I’ll be honest right out of the…
Rafael "Mister Movie" JovineAug 11, 2025No romance, only poison. No love, only objectification. No perfection, just sheer uncertainty. A very simple film that knows how to construct itself in a way that makes it an unpleasant viewing experience. And for me, the film didn’t really evoke anything particularly…
werskuJul 22, 2016Like an early Hong Sang-Soo exploration of wounded masculinity with the cruelty button pushed to the max. Arturo de Córdova performance has the unlikely perfect mix of funny and tragic. A double bill of this and Akerman’s La Captive should be required viewing for every…
Filipe Furtado - Mar 23, 2014
Perhaps because there's a disturbing scene in a tower, I found myself thinking of Vertigo as I watched this. Perhaps the overall aura of paranoia that this film has just put me in mind of Hitchcock in general. Not so much a thriller as an oppressive anti-romance, El (which…
Sally Jane BlackSep 13, 2024Una pieza indiscutiblemente insuperable y Perfectamente filmada. Buñuel disecciona la psique de un hombre obsesionado, atrapado en su propio tormento interno, mientras expone las tensiones entre moralidad, deseo y control en la sociedad. La icónica escena del Campanario…
basty2049Nov 16, 2025—Bueno, hijo, pero el amor no siempre es recíproco. ¿Y si ella no te quisiera? —¡Tendría que quererme! Me gusta la narrativa de Luis Buñuel: tensa, entretenida y adictiva. El personaje de Francisco está tan bien construido que termina cayéndome pésimo. Creo que tiene muy…
Karla Bigurra - Feb 18, 2018
Hay muchas cosas que me encantan del cine de Buñuel. Su postura hacia la religión, hacia la hipocresía de la sociedad y sobre todo la manera en que toma un elemento al que ya estamos acostumbrados a ver de cierto modo y nos lo presenta bajo una luz completamente nueva. Es…
OlevarJul 20, 2023a 101 course on toxic relationships, jealousy and masks hiding a big insecure nothing in front of the loved one.
shookoneNov 1, 2019Every director planning to make an arthouse film about the deconstruction of masculinity should be forced to watch this first and then decide if he / she really can bring on anything that can stand besides EL even for a second. Would save the festival circuit lots of…
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Metacritic
Bunuel remained true to his surrealist origins throughout his Mexican period, but the full command of his earliest and latest films, as well as such intermediate masterpieces as Los olvidados and The Exterminating Angel, resulted in stronger fare than this.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
With eerie point-of-view shots, Buñuel gets inside the mind of a madman whose sadism is inseparable from his high social position; his commanding manner mirrors the folly and the cruelty of society at large.
Richard Brody
The New Yorker
Though set in Mexico and ripe with authentic details from daily life, Él is less a portrait of machismo gone awry than it is a brutal and absurd glimpse at one man’s runaway paranoia.
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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