Una mujer sin amor (A Woman Without Love). 1952. Directed by Luis Buñuel

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Una mujer sin amor (A Woman Without Love). 1952. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Courtesy of Filmoteca UNAM.

Una mujer sin amor (A Woman Without Love). 1952. Mexico. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Screenplay by Jaime Salvador, Buñuel. With Rosario Granados, Julio Villarreal, Tito Junco, Joaquín Cordero. In Spanish; English subtitles. 35mm. 89 min.

Expanding on the back story of Guy de Maupassant’s novel Pierre et Jean, Buñuel composes a trans-generational story of bourgeois hypocrisy centered on the loveless wife (Rosario Granados, the great wronged spouse of Mexican cinema) of an antiques dealer (Julio Villareal) who treats her as a slave. Buñuel seems mostly to be on his best behavior for this classically restrained melodrama, though his interest grows as the melodrama evolves to include a passionate rivalry between the couple’s two adult sons – one of whom is the offspring of an affair, and has inherited his father’s fortune. The film is an important step in Buñuel’s stylistic development, as he moves away from a montage-based aesthetic toward precisely blocked long takes.

This film accompanies Buñuel in Mexico.

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