El

A brilliant, gripping, and darkly hilarious look at male insanity and paranoia. The main character is a demented asshole with a bit of a foot fetish and a jealous streak that would embarrass Ralph Kramden. Great ending.

Bunuel knows his bourgeoisie well - and here, he makes a magnetic one out of a frighteningly misogynistic, impotent, hypocrite git. It creates some fantastic tension in the last act by using its framing device (if she's not narrating, then she might just die!), some uncharacteristic expressionism during his Madness, and I love Bunuel's use of fetish symbolism in the Church. But it seems a castrated Bunuel - a low-budget, quickie programmer that only casually reveals Bunuel's own fetishes.

The greatest portrait of obsession; The main character, brilliantly played by Arturo de Córdova, is both a louse and an unsympathetic figure who's just merely gone off the deep end. Jealousy is taken to a whole new extreme with this masterpiece. The bell tower scene is bar none, my favorite scene of all films I've seen so far.

A very good movie with an excellent lead character. It's not often you see a main character this demented in a non-violent film and it makes for very interesting experience. The supporting performances are pretty good too and the script has the usual Buñuel touches.

Well-structured and acted. Toxic masculinity before it wasn't cool.

"Released at the pinnacle of his prolific Mexican period, Él (This Strange Passion) remains one of Buñuel's crowning achievements." - Ed Gonzalez

Great tension and a fantastic main character. At times it felt vaguely Hitchcockian!

A tragi-comic case history with chilling and memorable details; not one of its director's great works, but an engaging minor one.

Sharp satire that is centered around a grotesque depiction of the jealous husband. It really works.

O alucinado estreava há 70 anos no Peru. O alucinado indeed. Holy shit, não à toa era um dos filmes favoritos do titio Lacan, do primeiro ao último frame exala psicanálise e o melhor de tudo? Sob uma perspectiva feminista. Absolutamente brilhante. Mais uma obra-prima da fase mexicana do Buñuel que sempre acho meio subestimada em relação à fase francesa. Box Versátil O Cinema de Luis Buñuel volume 2.

Buñuel explores Hitchcockian themes of obsession and paranoia with impressive results. The film's brief flashes of the surreal accent a man's descent into fate, and its ending is quite haunting in its apparent resolve.

I have mostly disliked Bunuel in my experiences with him, with the exception of Viridiana, but this surprisingly conventional one, a drama with satirical elements at times, is a winner. de Cordova is amazing as the possessive, jealous, toxically masculine husband and Garces is very good as well. Both, but especially de Cordova, play their roles with more depth than you might usually see in this kind of film. Struck me as Hitchcockian at times.

Great opening couple minutes. I found the rest significantly less interesting.

89.50

Buñuel's Mexican films often bear the weight of his battles with insipid commercialism, which results in this so-so melodrama of a man losing his mind to jealousy and madness. Points go to the principals for trying to bring subtlety to their highly archetypal roles and Buñuel's artful use of Mexican locations (such as the bizarre house where most of the action takes place), but overall, the film plays it starched-collar straight, with only hints of the unsettled surrealism of his better work.

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This is the first Bunuel film that I've felt that I really got.

One of the greats of Buñuel's Mexican period.

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An early Bunuel classic about obsession.

Bizarre black comedy.

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