Él (1953)

Directed by

Luis Buñuel

Genre

drama film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 159 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy man becomes consumed by jealous suspicions about his new wife. His paranoia grows until it threatens to destroy their marriage and her sanity.

tenseunsettlingslow-burnclaustrophobicpsychologically intenseuneasydarkly comic

What happens

Él, (also stylized El and EL, and released in the US as This Strange Passion) is a 1953 Mexican film by Luis Buñuel based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto. The film explores several of Buñuel’s signature cinematic themes, most notably a romance warped by a bourgeois husband's obsessive paranoia, interspersed with distinct surrealist touches. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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