1951 · comedy · drama
Daughter of Deceit
Directed by Luis Buñuel1h 18m1951
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Our read: Daughter of Deceit (1951) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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