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El (This Strange Passion)

Él

1953

Luis Buñuel

Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena ...

8.0

6,484

Drama. Romance Francisco is rich, rather strict on principles, and still a bachelor. After meeting Gloria by accident, he is suddenly intent on her becoming his wife and courts her until she agrees to marry him. Francisco is a dedicated husband, but little by little his passion starts to exhibit disturbing traits. Nevertheless, Gloria meets with scepticism as she expresses her worries to their acquaintances.

	Author	Review
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"A brutal and absurd glimpse at one man’s runaway paranoia (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A.H. Weiler The New York Times	"An elementary and uninspired study of abnormal psychology (...) 'This Strange Passion' remains murky and turgid. It is rarely moving."	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The full command of his earliest and latest films, as well as such intermediate masterpieces as 'Los olvidados' and 'The Exterminating Angel', resulted in stronger fare than this."	NEU

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