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A wealthy and religious man marries a young woman and becomes obsessed with her fidelity, leading to his mental breakdown. El is a Mexican film by the surrealist director Luis Buñuel, based on his own experience with a paranoid husband.
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- Drama, Romance
- Luis Buñuel
- 1953-07-09
Él (Spanish: Him; re-issued in the US as This Strange Passion) (1953), by Luis Buñuel, is a Mexican film based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto. It deals with many themes common to Buñuel's cinema, including a May–December romance between a woman and her obsessively overprotective bourgeois husband, and touches of surrealism . [1]
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May 2, 2001 · Él (This Strange Passion) is a 1952 Mexican film by Luis Buñuel, based on a novel by Luis Alcoriza. It depicts the obsessive and violent love of a construction entrepreneur for a young woman, and his delusions fueled by his Catholic upbringing.
Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Luis Beristáin, Manuel Dondé, Rafael Banquells, Fernando Casanova. Jealousy consumes a wealthy property owner in Él, a fairly irregular entry in the oeuvre of Spanish surrealist director Luis Buñuel given its straightforward story and employment of suspense.
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath. Luis Buñuel. Director, Screenplay. Mercedes Pinto. Novel. Luis Alcoriza. Screenplay.
Él is a Mexican drama directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Arturo de Córdova as Francisco, a man who marries Gloria (Delia Garcés) but cannot let go of his past affairs. The film explores themes of jealousy, double standards and the dark side of patriarchy.
