Abismos de pasión (1954)

Director:

Luis Buñuel

Writers:

Emily Brontë (novel)
Luis Buñuel (story)

Release Date:

30 June 1954 (Mexico)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Gone several years, the brooding Alejandro returns to the hacienda of his foster sister, Catalina, whom he loves...

Plot Keywords:

Foreign Language Adaptation | Beautiful Woman | Based On Novel

Cast

Irasema Dilián	...	Catalina (as Irasema Dilian)
Jorge Mistral	...	Alejandro
Lilia Prado	...	Isabel
Ernesto Alonso	...	Eduardo
Francisco Reiguera	...	José
Hortensia Santoveña	...	María
Jaime González Quiñones	...	Jorge (as Jaime González)
Luis Aceves Castañeda	...	Ricardo

Also Known As:

Cumbres borrascosas (Mexico) (alternative title)
Wuthering Heights

Runtime:

USA:91 min | Spain:90 min | Argentina:90 min

Country:

Mexico

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA High Fidelity)

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Hacienda de San Francisco Cuadra, Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico

Company:

Producciones Tepeyac

Trivia:

Luis Buñuel, in collaboration with Pierre Unik, wrote the first draft of a screenplay based on Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" in 1931.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (2001)

Pure cinema made of human bodies

Like most of Bunuel's works, the main (and also the most interesting) layer of this film is the mental one. Yes, there are lots of dialogs, but it can be easily watched without hearing a word, due to Bunuel incredible talent of telling stories, feelings, fears, desires and lust exclusively through images. Only a bunch of directors are capable of achieving such a purity in visualization.

Abismos de pasiòn is a very classical story, filtered through Bunuel's will to further inspect desire (both sexual and mental). Alejandro is clearly ruled by his passion and instincts; characteristic which is praised by Bunuel, envying it.