El - salattu totuus

Original title: Él

19531953
K-16K-16
1h 32m

IMDb RATING

7.9/10

5.9K

YOUR RATING

Drama Romance

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

IMDb RATING

7.9/10

5.9K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Luis Buñuel
Writers
- Luis Buñuel(story)
- Luis Alcoriza(story)
- Mercedes Pinto(novel "Él")
Stars

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Awards
- 1 nomination

Photos10

Delia Garcés in El - salattu totuus (1953)

Luis Beristáin and Delia Garcés in El - salattu totuus (1953)

Arturo de Córdova and Delia Garcés in El - salattu totuus (1953)

Trivia
In making the film, Buñuel added personal memories of his sister Conchita's paranoid husband who once mistakenly thought he saw Buñuel making vulgar faces at him on the street and went home to get his gun. He was stopped when Buñuel's family finally convinced him that Buñuel was living in Zaragoza at the time.

Quotes
Francisco Galván de Montemayor: Now tell me truth: what do you dislike about me?
Gloria Vilalta: There's nothing l dislike about you.
Francisco Galván de Montemayor: There must be something, nobody's perfect.
Gloria Vilalta: Well, there's one thing: sometimes you're a bit unfair.
Francisco Galván de Montemayor: Nonsense! I don't have that fault. Few men possess so keen a sense of justice as l.

Connections
Featured in Puhetta Buñuelista (2000)

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Review

Featured review

The masterpiece of Bunuel's Mexican period

This tale of a pathologically jealous husband, whose delusions of cuckoldry teeter over the edge into madness, ranks with BELLE DE JOUR and the early surrealist films as the first rank of the Bunuel canon. The ending, which has audiences screaming out loud in a mixture of gruesome delight and horror, would probably drive Brian DePalma to death by alcohol if he saw it. Brian, don't watch, okay?

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