Wealthy aesthete and amateur ceramicist Archie (Ernesto Alonso) has a confession to make, beginning with the innocent nun he chased to her untimely demise. Sadly, she is but the latest in a long line of his victims stretching back to his governess when he was but a child during the Revolution (he kills her with a music box). Luis Buñuel’s black comedy about Eros and Thanatos is an elegant study in perversity, steeped in Freud, and revelling in the repressed. It’s a kinky, funny, sick movie.
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Gleefully perverse… Against a background of revolution and restoration, Catholic mysteries and aristocratic manners, Buñuel unfolds, in images akin to Freudian X-rays, the repressed desires that respectable society both embodies and conceals.
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Luis Buñuel
Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava Stern, Rita Macedo, Ariadne Welter
Mexico
1955
In Spanish with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Alfonso Patiño Gómez
Screenwriter
Luis Buñuel, Eduardo Ugarte
Cinematography
Agustín Jiménez
Editor
Jorge Bustos
Original Music
Jorge Pérez Hernández
Production Design
Jesús Bracho
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