Tristana

RESEÑA EN ESPAÑOL AQUI ACTION! - LUIS BUNUEL: BETWEEN SOCIAL REALISM AND SURREALISM On this rewatch, the film didn’t quite hit me the same way it did five years ago, though I still found plenty to enjoy. It’s fun to see Buñuel returning to his soapy, melodramatic roots,…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

Given Buñuel's knack for getting inside bourgeois "normal" and revealing it as perverse, I wasn't too surprised by the film's immersion in aristocratic decorum, and the story's quasi-gothic intricacies do leave some striking impressions: There's a nightmare in which…

Alice Stoehr

Luis Buñuel's story of a relationship between a wealthy upper class man and the young woman who came under his guardianship after being orphaned as a child. Tristana is an oddly surreal and very bleak black comedy, which offers criticism of the church, the bourgeois and…

Slig001

Tristana is not one of the most beloved films by Luis Buñuel, but it depicts his ideas around bourgeois hypocrisy in a dark and compelling manner. The roles of men and women are discussed in Tristana, and shown as entirely decided by the domain of men. The titular lead…

Darren Carver-Balsiger

too many don lopes out here

KYK

me being excited because catherine deneuve is in a spanish film and it turns out that someone is dubbing her… cute.

lara 𐙚

While Bunuel's adaptation of Benito Pérez Galdós' late nineteenth-century novel appears, on the surface, to be a classic adaptation of the material, his relocation of the narrative to the turbulent nineteen-thirties (just before the Spanish civil war) delivers commentary…

Paul Elliott

"I know Jesuschrist was the first socialist, etc. So what?" ROFL! Shockingly derivative from the Mexican post-war melodramas directed by Buñuel himself during the 1940s and 1950s (which, in turn, were reminiscent from auteurs of the post-Revolutionary Golden Age of…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Continuing on the idea he had for Diary of a Chambermaid, Buñuel imbues the theme of weaponized female sexuality in Tristana to its fullest effect. Tristana, played both elegantly and venomously by the ineffable Catherine Deneuve, loses her mother and is taken in by the…

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