1952 · drama · melodrama
A Woman Without Love
Directed by Luis Buñuel1h 25m1952
After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.
Our read: A Woman Without Love (1952) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · melodrama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / melodrama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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