El

El

1953
Drama
1h 22m
Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him.
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El

1953
Drama
1h 22m
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Rated 09 Feb 2007
92
96th
A brilliant, gripping, and darkly hilarious look at male insanity and paranoia. The main character is a demented asshole with a bit of a foot fetish and a jealous streak that would embarrass Ralph Kramden. Great ending.
Rated 08 Feb 2008
84
77th
A very good movie with an excellent lead character. It's not often you see a main character this demented in a non-violent film and it makes for very interesting experience. The supporting performances are pretty good too and the script has the usual Buñuel touches.
Rated 25 Jul 2009
10
99th
The greatest portrait of obsession; The main character, brilliantly played by Arturo de Córdova, is both a louse and an unsympathetic figure who's just merely gone off the deep end. Jealousy is taken to a whole new extreme with this masterpiece. The bell tower scene is bar none, my favorite scene of all films I've seen so far.
Rated 09 Jul 2012
74
61st
Bunuel knows his bourgeoisie well - and here, he makes a magnetic one out of a frighteningly misogynistic, impotent, hypocrite git. It creates some fantastic tension in the last act by using its framing device (if she's not narrating, then she might just die!), some uncharacteristic expressionism during his Madness, and I love Bunuel's use of fetish symbolism in the Church. But it seems a castrated Bunuel - a low-budget, quickie programmer that only casually reveals Bunuel's own fetishes.
Rated 14 Feb 2011
40
97th
"Released at the pinnacle of his prolific Mexican period, Él (This Strange Passion) remains one of Buñuel's crowning achievements." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 16 Jul 2010
76
76th
Great tension and a fantastic main character. At times it felt vaguely Hitchcockian!
Rated 16 Oct 2014
82
83rd
Well-structured and acted. Toxic masculinity before it wasn't cool.
Rated 09 Apr 2009
50
67th
A tragi-comic case history with chilling and memorable details; not one of its director's great works, but an engaging minor one.
Rated 01 Mar 2008
84
74th
# 327
Rated 30 Nov 2011
83
66th
#333
Rated 19 Dec 2008
84
68th
315
Rated 18 Dec 2023
97
96th
O alucinado estreava há 70 anos no Peru. O alucinado indeed. Holy shit, não à toa era um dos filmes favoritos do titio Lacan, do primeiro ao último frame exala psicanálise e o melhor de tudo? Sob uma perspectiva feminista. Absolutamente brilhante. Mais uma obra-prima da fase mexicana do Buñuel que sempre acho meio subestimada em relação à fase francesa. Box Versátil O Cinema de Luis Buñuel volume 2.
Rated 04 Sep 2009
43
16th
Bizarre black comedy.
Rated 06 Apr 2011
87
77th
One of the greats of Buñuel's Mexican period.
Rated 13 Jan 2010
83
66th
333
Rated 23 Apr 2011
88
92nd
This is the first Bunuel film that I've felt that I really got.
Rated 02 Jun 2015
67
4th
Buñuel's Mexican films often bear the weight of his battles with insipid commercialism, which results in this so-so melodrama of a man losing his mind to jealousy and madness. Points go to the principals for trying to bring subtlety to their highly archetypal roles and Buñuel's artful use of Mexican locations (such as the bizarre house where most of the action takes place), but overall, the film plays it starched-collar straight, with only hints of the unsettled surrealism of his better work.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
80
87th
Sharp satire that is centered around a grotesque depiction of the jealous husband. It really works.
Rated 24 Dec 2009
93
91st
An early Bunuel classic about obsession.
Rated 21 Feb 2019
90
77th
89.50
Rated 20 Nov 2021
67
31st
Great opening couple minutes. I found the rest significantly less interesting.
Rated 28 Aug 2022
84
81st
I have mostly disliked Bunuel in my experiences with him, with the exception of Viridiana, but this surprisingly conventional one, a drama with satirical elements at times, is a winner. de Cordova is amazing as the possessive, jealous, toxically masculine husband and Garces is very good as well. Both, but especially de Cordova, play their roles with more depth than you might usually see in this kind of film. Struck me as Hitchcockian at times.
Rated 01 Aug 2023
7
54th
Buñuel explores Hitchcockian themes of obsession and paranoia with impressive results. The film's brief flashes of the surreal accent a man's descent into fate, and its ending is quite haunting in its apparent resolve.

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