Diamond Hunters

1956

1h 32m

Action

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92%

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13 Reviews

58%

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250+ Ratings

A prostitute (Simone Signoret), a mercenary and rebels flee through a South American jungle.

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Vincent Canby

New York Times

Death in the Garden is a kind of halfway house for the film genius, made when he had yet to receive the acclaim that would give him full control of his movies, but after he had been taken seriously enough by the money men.

Rated: 4/5

May 9, 2005

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

Signoret's frenzy becomes her character's, enervating an otherwise humdrum melodrama.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jul 31, 2002

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Dave Kehr

Chicago Reader

No masterpiece, but a prime example of subversive cinema.

Jan 1, 2000

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Nathanael Hood

Unseen Films

Though belonging to the oft-overlooked Mexican phase of Buñuel's career, Death in the Garden is nonetheless as caustic and vicious as anything he ever made.

Rated: 7/10

Jun 18, 2020

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

...a subterfuge film from Buuel, in which his style and politics are subsumed within genre trappings.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 28, 2016

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Luis Bunuel's rarely seen "Death in the Garden" (1955) is a survivalist suspense film with a subtle dose of political and religious commentary.

Rated: B

Jan 3, 2010

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Buñuel's big budget movie about a revolution in South America doesn't have his trademark surrealism but uses the jungle as the locale where people's worst qualities come out to play and destroy each other.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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7.5 [Luis Buñuel] [Mx]

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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surrealists master bunnel tries a commerical pic with signoret as a ho that doesn't do much business but every scene she is in a different faboulous costume!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Encontrarse con personajes tan complejos en una pelÃcula que parece que no va a ningÃºn lado es refrescante. No el mejor trabajo de BuÃ±uel pero sin duda lo suficientemente bueno como para recomendarla.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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Disappointingly lifeless for a Bunuel film, regardless of the fact that in it he remains true to dealing with some of his favourite themes.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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I am not a patient viewer, I need something to grab my attention rather quickly, an image, an opening quote, I need to be drawn in. With films like Coppola's "Somewhere" or Leone's "The Good the Bad and the Ugly", there isn't dialogue right away, but there is intrigue. Death in the Garden has the poorest production quality I've ever seen except for maybe a version of Romeo and Juliet I glanced at from the early thirties. It looks like a T.V movie from the 90's. I'm sort of shocked that Criteron has this in there collection, because it's one of the worst they have to offer. There is nothing to like about this film, the dialogue is silly, the camerawork is abysmal and awkward, and the acting is dreadful. I want this movie destroyed.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Synopsis

A prostitute (Simone Signoret), a mercenary and rebels flee through a South American jungle.

Director: Luis Buñuel
Producer: Leon Carré
Screenwriter: Luis Alcoriza, Luis Buñuel, Raymond Queneau
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 11, 2017
Runtime: 1h 32m