1953 · drama · thriller
Él (This Strange Passion)
Directed by Luis Buñuel1h 32m1953
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Our read: Él (This Strange Passion) (1953) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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