Él - The Criterion Collection

Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel's fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses into an adaptation of Mercedes Pinto's autobiographical novel, Buñuel crafts an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young woman (Delia Garcés) discovers that the outward sophistication of her new husband (Arturo de Córdova) masks disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A characteristically raw indictment of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the director's greatest excursion into melodrama, a vivid portrayal of society's inability to restrain the irrational urges of the human id.

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Interviews: Luis Buñuel (director)., Video essay on director Luis Buñuel by Jordi Xifra (scholar); Appreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro; Panel discussion from 2009, moderated by filmmaker José Luis Garci; Essay by Fernanda Solórzano (critic) and an interview with Luis Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent., Trailers

Actors: Delia Garcés, Arturo de Córdova, Carlos Martínez Baena, Manuel Dondé, José Pidal, Rafael Banquells, Luis Beristáin, Roberto Meyer, Aurora Walker, Fernando Casanova

Audio Languages: Spanish

Duration: 93 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English

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