Él
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.
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, director of photography Gabriel Figueroa’s son, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- 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
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano and an interview with Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent
New cover by Eric Skillman and Polly Dedman
4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, director of photography Gabriel Figueroa’s son, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- 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
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano and an interview with Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent
New cover by Eric Skillman and Polly Dedman
Cast
- Arturo de Córdova
- Francisco Galván de Montemayor
- Delia Garcés
- Gloria Vilalta
- Aurora Walker
- Doña Esperanza Vilalta
- Carlos Martínez Baena
- Father Velasco
- Rafael Banquells
- Ricardo Luján
- Fernando Casanova
- Lic. Beltrán
- Manuel Dondé
- Pablo
Credits
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Written by
- Luis Buñuel
- Written by
- Luis Alcoriza
- Based upon the novel by
- Mercedes Pinto
- Produced by
- Óscar Dancigers
- Cinematography by
- Gabriel Figueroa
- Production design by
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Set decoration by
- Pablo Galván
- Sound by
- José de Pérez
- Edited by
- Carlos Savage
- Music by
- Luis Hernández Bretón
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