Great Restorations

Él

Credits

Country :

Mexique

Year :

1953

Director :

Luis Buñuel

Version :

vostEN

Duration :

92 minutes

Format :

digital | 4K Restoration

Actors :

Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker

📖 Based on the novel by Mercedes Pinto

🗣️ 18:15 Introduction to the film (in English) | 18:30 Start of the film

synopsis

A husband’s suave exterior unravels after his marriage, and he unleashes his paranoid and volatile temper on his wife, which escalates to ever more dangerous and unpredictable tantrums.

Released at the height of his prolific Mexican period, Él remains one of Luis Buñuel’s crowning achievements.

Slant Magazine

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.

The New Yorker