"While the melodrama is certainly potent, Susana lacks considerable bite." - Ed Gonzalez

Excellent film about what an attractive female psychopath can do to a family.

One of the very best of Bunuel's "normal" films. At face value, it's a spirited melodrama, but there's plenty of Bunuel's signature on it. Twisted sexual politics, malicious manipulation, class commentary, a complex misogyny, and the ending houses a delicious irony just beneath the surface. Furthermore, it's shot as well as any Hollywood feature of the same era, and the actors are all more than adequate.

She was simply delicious...

A Buñuel film with a telenovela plot but still undoubtedly his. The acting is a very good fit for the story, especially Quintana as the devilish Susana. While it may not bear many of Buñuel's visual trademarks, it clearly has his wit and cutting mockery through out the script.