Rent Él (1953)

Name: Él
Rating: 4

4.0 of 5 from 46 ratings

1h 32min

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Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel's fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses into an adaptation of Mercedes Pinto's autobiographical novel, Buñuel crafts an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young woman (Delia Garcés) discovers that the outward sophistication of her new husband (Arturo de Córdova) masks disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia.
A characteristically raw indictment of religious and social hypocrisy, 'Él' stands as the director's greatest excursion into melodrama, a vivid portrayal of society's inability to restrain the irrational urges of the human id.
Actors:: Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena, Manuel Dondé, Rafael Banquells, Fernando Casanova, José Pidal, Roberto Meyer, Luis Beristáin, Agripina Anaya, Salvador Arriola, León Barroso, Antonio Bravo, Manuel Casanueva, Jorge Chesterking, Enedina Díaz de León, Carmen Dorronsoro de Roces, María Gentil Arcos, Leonor Gómez
Directors:: Luis Buñuel
Producers:: Óscar Dancigers
Writers:: Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza, Mercedes Pinto
Aka:: This Strange Passion / El
Genres:: Classics, Drama, Romance
Countries:: Mexico

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Release Date:

24/11/2025

Run Time:

92 minutes

Languages:

Spanish LPCM Mono

Subtitles:

English

Formats:

Pal

Aspect Ratio:

Full Screen 1.37:1

Colour:

B & W

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Bonus:

New video essay on director Luis Buñuel by scholar Jordi Xifra
Appreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
Interview with Buñuel from 1981 by writer Jean-Claude Carrière, a longtime collaborator of the director's
Panel discussion from 2009, moderated by filmmaker José Luis Garci
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