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Tristana (Catherine Deneuve) is a young devout woman who goes to live with her male guardian after her mother's death. His intentions towards her are clearly more than fatherly, leading to an enforced marriage, but Tristana flees to Madrid when she falls in love with a young artist. Years later, she is afflicted with a life-threatening illness, which, however, does not stop her plotting revenge against the man who had stripped her of her innocence.
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A classic 1930's film, Tristana is a twisted, haunting study of sexual politics and the nature of freedom. A film that continues to disturb and transfix, it was Luis Bunuel's last film to be shot in Spain.
The DVD contains two versions of the film, one Spanish and the other French - both with English subtitles
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Format:DVD
Please don't get me wrong, "Belle de Jour" is a great movie and a personal favourite but I must admit that "Tristana" is in many respects the better of the two movies Buneul made with Deneuve. And Deneuve outdoes herself in what is surely her finest performance of all. Cruel, brutal and deeply cynical, "Tristana" has much in common with "Viridiana" and is equally as great.
Format:DVD
68uk Tristana by Luís Buñuel (1970, 105')
Tristana is a 1970 Spanish film, again directed by Luís Buñuel, again starring Catherine Deneuve, both even better than in Belle de Jour (1967), and (this time also) Fernando Rey. Based on the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós and shot in Toledo, Spain, Tristana is a Spanish-Franco-Italian co-production. The voices of French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Franco Nero were dubbed to Spanish.
Why do I say better? Is it the all-Spanish environment (book, Toledo, Rey) and society that gives it greater homogeneity? Is it the tough as nails story line of the innocent semi-orphan beauty and her lewd aristocratic uncle? Is it the treacherous disease that needs one of her legs to be amputated? Is it the schmaltzy love story with her painter would-be husband Franco Nero?
Well, most likely all of it, though the all-Spanishness seems forging everything together to a perfect whole. That surrealistic and spooky elements from Buñuel's earlier days resurface neither surprises nor hurts. That overall simplicity prevails, eg church bells are the only extra sound, and that in the end, Tristana is half-mad with guilt, is only natural, the outcome of such a world.
68uk Tristana by Luís Buñuel (1970, 105')
16 March 2012
Tristana is a 1970 Spanish film, again directed by Luís Buñuel, again starring Catherine Deneuve, both even better than in Belle de Jour (1967), and (this time also) Fernando Rey. Based on the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós and shot in Toledo, Spain, Tristana is a Spanish-Franco-Italian co-production. The voices of French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Franco Nero were dubbed to Spanish.
Why do I say better? Is it the all-Spanish environment (book, Toledo, Rey) and society that gives it greater homogeneity? Is it the tough as nails story line of the innocent semi-orphan beauty and her lewd aristocratic uncle? Is it the treacherous disease that needs one of her legs to be amputated? Is it the schmaltzy love story with her painter would-be husband Franco Nero?
Well, most likely all of it, though the all-Spanishness seems forging everything together to a perfect whole. That surrealistic and spooky elements from Buñuel's earlier days resurface neither surprises nor hurts. That overall simplicity prevails, eg church bells are the only extra sound, and that in the end, Tristana is half-mad with guilt, is only natural, the outcome of such a world.
68uk Tristana by Luís Buñuel (1970, 105')
16 March 2012
By William Cohen
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Format:DVD
I watched this film because I've got a friend called Tristana, and I wanted to know what about the film inspired her parents to call her by the rather unusual name. The film creates an oppressive atmosphere, which Tristana rebels against quite effectively, but it's subtle and double-edged. Her adventures leave her with mixed feelings, and she becomes lost. Classic art house stuff, which is a bit dated and flat at times, but there are a few surprises, which make it worth it.
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