This Strange Passion

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Audience Member An excellent movie among mexican movies. Some called it the best Mexican movie sadly I wont agree with that. The subject is something you can watch 5 times per day in every soap opera. Nevertheless this is done with a great direction. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Movies is not so interesting as the fact that Buñuel (a Spaniard living in Mexico, two very heteropatriarcal societies) tells the story of a man who mistreats women, making what seems an accurate psychological portrait of a representative example. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member A good film about narcissism that won't innovate that much next to other of Buñuel's Works. Great script though Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Gloria's passivity and determination to believe a man she barely knows becomes all the more exasperating as the narrative unfolds, but Buñuel creates a gripping portrait of male dominance, abuse and paranoia with a cynical last scene that couldn't be more meaningful. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member EL, in Spanish means "he", in this Buñuel's film, he is Francisco (de Córdova), an unmarried middle age bourgeois man, who is first seen as an assistant during a church ceremony in Mexico City, he is pouring water in the basin when Father Velasco (Baena) prepares to wash the feet of a young boy, and a close-up is zoomed in as Father kisses the foot he just washed, before another shot aiming a pair of female feet, the svelte legs then reveals they belong to a fine-looking woman Gloria (Garcés), whom Francisco falls for at first glance, lust stems from the sight of a pair of feet. So in hindsight, the tongue-in-cheek reference of feet fetish not just insinuates one of Francisco's essential quality is his religious fervour, but also incriminates religion as a main cause in his paranoid psyche. Seeing that it is also in the church, Francisco finally discharges all his rage over the tipping point, towards whom? Father Velasco, his dearest friend. keep reading my review on my blog: http://wp.me/p1eXom-20Z Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Apasionante relato sobre los celos y los fetiches de Luis Buñuel. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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