1955 · dark-comedy · drama
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
Directed by Luis Buñuel1h 29m1955
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Our read: The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive dark-comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured dark-comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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- inventive
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