100
Chicago Reader by Dave Kehr
Buñuel conjures with Freudian imagery, outrageous humor, and a quiet, lyrical camera style to create one of his most complex and complete works, a film that continues to disturb and transfix.
Tristana
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- Spain,
- Italy,
- France
- 1970
- · 95m
Director
Luis Buñuel
Cast
Catherine Deneuve,
Fernando Rey,
Franco Nero,
Lola Gaos,
Antonio Casas,
Jesús Fernández
Genre
Drama
Tristana is a young woman left in the care of her guardian Don Lope after the death of her parents. Don, however, has less than innocent intentions for his ward. At the same time, Tristana falls for an artist named Horacio. What follows is a story of love, abuse, and a woman seeking respect in a society unwilling to accommodate her.
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What are critics saying?
100
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A few great directors have the ability to draw us into their dream world, into their personalities and obsessions and fascinate us with them for a short time. This is the highest level of escapism the movies can provide for us.
90
The New York Times
Buñuel has made a marvelously complex, funny and vigorously moral movie that also is, to me, his most perfectly cast film. [21 Sept. 1970]
90
Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
The film, which came out in 1970 after a censorship battle with the Franco regime, catches — and releases — all the tension of shifting sexual mores. You can almost sense the director's pleasure in taking apart the duplicities of a patriarchal Spanish society. [21 Feb. 2013]
90
The New York Times
Buñuel has made a marvelously complex, funny and vigorously moral movie that also is, to me, his most perfectly cast film. [21 Sept. 1970]
88
Boston Globe by Ty Burr
As much as this tale of bent love runs in the ruts of its maker’s obsessions, it has an undertow that’s impossible to shake. [22 Nov. 2012]
80
Variety
Those seeking the Bunuel touches of black humor, digs at Church and Establishment, irreverence and criticism, and an overall condemnation of Spanish mores and hypocrisy, will find a modicum of scenes here to titillate their palates. Yet Bunuel, despite occasional digs, has remained more or less respectful.
80
Variety by Staff [Not Credited]
Those seeking the Bunuel touches of black humor, digs at Church and Establishment, irreverence and criticism, and an overall condemnation of Spanish mores and hypocrisy, will find a modicum of scenes here to titillate their palates. Yet Bunuel, despite occasional digs, has remained more or less respectful.
75
Slant Magazine
There are more than a few striking images and intriguing ideas to be extracted from Tristana. [10 Oct. 2012]
75
Slant Magazine by Budd Wilkins
There are more than a few striking images and intriguing ideas to be extracted from Tristana. [10 Oct. 2012]
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