Susana
by Luis Bunuel
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Actor: Mendoza, Quintana, SolerDirector: Luis Bunuel
Brand: Facets Multimedia
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: CINEMATECA
Movie Reviews of Susana
Movie Review: Luis Bunuel describes Susana as "a perfectly routine film about which I've nothing to say." But I have few words to add.
Summary: 4 Stars
Don Luis Bunuel is the only film director who never disappointed me. I've seen 20 his films from different periods of his life, and I like a lot all of them. Each is interesting and memorable in its own way. Made in 1951 during Bunuel's Mexican period, "Susana" aka "Carne Y Demonio" or "The Devil and the Flesh" is not an exception. The story of Susana (Rosita Quintana) , a sexy fame fatal, a walking temptation, is known as a "lesser" Bunuel and the film critics and the viewers often seem to apologize for liking the film, motivating that it lacks Bunuel's trademark surrealism. Bunuel was good in everything he ever done, even in "perfectly routine" pictures, and "Susana" has his touches all over. First of all, the music fits the story very well with its sensual creepiness. Bunuel's cinematography is masterful. The opening scene in the solitary reformatory cell is appropriately dark, devastating but in general - ironic when Susana is able to escape after praying to God and asking Him for help. One of the night scenes shot from three angles when three men watch the object of their desire thru the window is a work of art. The eponymous heroine of the film is a bad girl, a sensuous troublemaker who ruins the established order of one family's life simply by being there but pay attention how much in love is the camera with her. She is a walking temptation which is hard to resist. Susana has no regrets, no scruples regarding her goals and the ways to reach them but the truth of the matter is that she is young, beautiful, and irresistibly desirable for every male she simply passes by. The final sequence of the movie is a pure Bunuel and it is sarcastic in his best traditions. The storm has passed, everyone seems happy in Don Guadalupe's household after Susana was returned to prison by force, even Don Guadalupe's favorite Arabian mare recovered after serious illness . Everyone praises the Lord and ready to forget that Susana ever happened in their lives and to move on. Well, something tells me it would not be very easy to shake the memories of Susana for everyone who knew her.
Summary of Susana
A delinquent girl escapes from a reformatory and hides out on a plantation. Once there, she uses her feminine wiles to tempt others and turns the orderly domestic lives of those around her into a frenzied chaos. This powerful melodrama anticipates such Buñuel classics as TRISTANA and THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE. This film, like many others by Buñuel, uses the power of eroticism to reveal the hypocrisies of modern society.Similar DVD Movies
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