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Diamond Hunters

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

Critics Reviews

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Vincent Canby New York Times 05/09/2005
4/5
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. Go to Full Review
Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine 07/31/2002
2.5/4
Signoret's frenzy becomes her character's, enervating an otherwise humdrum melodrama. Go to Full Review
Dave Kehr Chicago Reader 01/01/2000
No masterpiece, but a prime example of subversive cinema. Go to Full Review
Nathanael Hood Unseen Films 06/18/2020
7/10
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. Go to Full Review
Josh Larsen LarsenOnFilm 10/28/2016
3.5/4
...a subterfuge film from Buuel, in which his style and politics are subsumed within genre trappings. Go to Full Review
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com 01/03/2010
B
Luis Bunuel's rarely seen "Death in the Garden" (1955) is a survivalist suspense film with a subtle dose of political and religious commentary. Go to Full Review
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05/12/2020 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. See more 08/31/2015 7.5 [Luis Buñuel] [Mx] See more 05/25/2014 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! See more 12/12/2012 Encontrarse con personajes tan complejos en una película que parece que no va a ningún lado es refrescante. No el mejor trabajo de Buñuel pero sin duda lo suficientemente bueno como para recomendarla. See more 09/17/2012 Disappointingly lifeless for a Bunuel film, regardless of the fact that in it he remains true to dealing with some of his favourite themes. See more 09/10/2012 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. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis A prostitute (Simone Signoret), a mercenary and rebels flee through a South American jungle.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Producer
David Mage
Screenwriter
Luis Alcoriza, Luis Buñuel, Raymond Queneau
Genre
Action
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 11, 2017
Runtime
1h 32m