MOVIEmeter
SEE RANK
Down 164 this week

Tristana (1970)

 -  Drama  -  29 April 1970 (France)
7.6
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 7.6/10 from 4,351 users   Metascore: 93/100
Reviews: 20 user | 36 critic | 7 from Metacritic.com

When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable ... See full summary »

Director:

Writers:

, (screen story), 1 more credit »
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 3595 titles created 1 month ago
 
a list of 1006 titles created 7 months ago
 
a list of 300 titles created 11 months ago
 
a list of 250 titles created 26 Apr 2011
 
a list of 74 titles created 6 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Tristana (1970)

Tristana (1970) on IMDb 7.6/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Tristana.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 9 wins & 1 nomination. See more awards »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Viridiana (1961)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey
Belle de Jour (1967)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Persona (1966)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  

A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
Contempt (1963)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.7/10 X  

Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. But because he let... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Talk to Her (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Stars: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling
Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Stars: Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot, André S. Labarthe
Paris, Texas (1984)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8/10 X  

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before... See full summary »

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Sam Berry, Dean Stockwell
The Silence (1963)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

"The Silence" is about the emotional distance between two sisters. The younger one is still attractive enough to pick up a lover in a strange city. The older one -- even though she is very ... See full summary »

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
La Notte (1961)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.8/10 X  

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.6/10 X  

On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.

Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Nostalghia (1983)
Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.9/10 X  

The Russian poet Gortchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th century Russian composer. In a ancient spa town, he ... See full summary »

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
...
...
...
Lola Gaos ...
Saturna
Antonio Casas ...
Don Cosme
Jesús Fernández ...
Saturno
Vicente Soler ...
Don Ambrosio
José Calvo ...
Bellringer
Fernando Cebrián ...
Dr. Miquis
Antonio Ferrandis
José María Caffarel
Cándida Losada ...
Citizen
Joaquín Pamplona
Mary Paz Pondal ...
Muchacha
Juanjo Menéndez ...
Don Cándido (as Juan José Menéndez)
Edit

Storyline

When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable nature, despite his socialistic views about business and religion. But Don Lope's one weakness is women, and he falls for the innocent girl in his charge, seduces her, makes her his lover, though all the while explaining to her that she is as free as he. But when she acts on this freedom, Don Lope must deal with the consequences of his world-view. Written by Gary Dickerson <slug@mail.utexas.edu>

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Taglines:

Somewhere between the innocent girl and the not so innocent mistress is the bizarre, sensuous story of Tristana

Genres:

Drama

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and some disturbing images | See all certifications »
Edit

Details

Country:

| |

Language:

Release Date:

29 April 1970 (France)  »

Also Known As:

Bunuel '70  »

Filming Locations:

 »

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$4,153 (USA) (21 November 2012)

Gross:

$12,686 (USA) (21 November 2012)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

(Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

Voted tenth best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary. See more »

Quotes

Don Lope: [Consoling Tristana after she's had a bad dream] It's good to have dreams, even if they're frightening... The dead don't dream.
See more »

Connections

Referenced in El pasado (2007) See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
Morbid Tale of Lost of Innocence
29 June 2012 | by (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – See all my reviews

In the 30's, in Spain, the teenager Tristana (Catherine Deneuve) becomes an orphan when her mother, who is the servant of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), dies. Don Lope is a decadent but respected aristocrat, anticlerical and liberal with socialist principles, and he becomes the guardian of Tristana. Don Lope sexually abuses of Tristana and develops a strange lover/father relationship with her.

When Tristana meets the painter Horacio (Franco Nero), they fall in love with each other and Tristana flees from Don Lope. However, years later, Horacio brings Tristana back to Don Lope with a terminal disease on her leg. She has a severed leg and survives, and Don Lope asks her hand in marriage. She accepts but now Tristana is a bitter and cynical woman and Don Lope feels the consequence of his acts in the past.

"Tristana" is a morbid tale of lost of innocence by Luis Buñuel. I had seen this film for the last time on 05 Feb 2003 and despite the wonderful performances of Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey, it is not among my favorite Buñuel's films. As usual, the director criticizes the Church and the bourgeois class but his famous surrealism is only presented in Tristana's nightmare. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Tristana"


6 of 7 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Need subtitles ... Kristi007
Catherine Deneuve's voice ulysses1904
'Tristana' coming out on Blu-ray. phoenixandrew
Discuss Tristana (1970) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?