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Abismos de Pasión

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The English Moors are transformed to the Mexican country in this adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel of obsessive love.

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Vincent Canby New York Times 12/06/2004
4.5/5
An almost magical example of how an artist of genius can take someone else's classic work and shape it to fit his own temperament without really violating it. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader 08/24/2002
Buuel's low-budget melodrama has a certain gothic ferocity that's missing in the other versions; the results are mixed, but seldom unworthy of the master. Go to Full Review
Ed Gonzalez Slant Magazine 08/23/2002
3/4
The film's dreary exteriors (the trees without leaves, the buzzards on constant alert) evoke a landscape of spiritual unrest. Go to Full Review
Michael Bronski Gay Community News (Boston) 09/13/2022
Wuthering Heights is camp because it takes what we are used to and transforms it, makes it into something even better than what we had imagined. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 04/15/2006
B+
Gains a power the other screen versions don't have through its unrelenting gothic ruthlessness. Go to Full Review
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08/24/2013 Sin duda lo mejor fue escuchar "de nuevo" Tristan e isolde ambientando la sordidez de otra historia absurdamente dramática pero no tan visualmente agradable como la de Melancholia... See more 11/16/2012 Un genere che sicuramente non mi si addice, datato, con un bunuel sprecato. L'opera migliore dell'esilio messicano rimane Los Olivados. See more 07/03/2011 Bunuel's Mexican retelling of Wuthering Heights checks in as a minor work. The gothic atmosphere is rich with low key lighting and chiaroscuro to spare. The characters are incredibly heated up, everyone is glowering, sobbing, wishing death upon themselves or their enemies. Only a few characteristic Bunuel touches show up (butterflies and spiders, primarily) but the finale in the crypt is classic. See more 06/24/2010 Un genere che sicuramente non mi si addice, datato, con un bunuel sprecato. L'opera migliore dell'esilio messicano rimane Los Olivados. See more 06/24/2010 No conozco el soporte literario de esta obra (Cumbres Borrascosas), pero me imagino que es mucho lo que aporta Bunuel de su propia cosecha a este rutinario pero desatado melodrama. Despues de un comienzo un poco flojo, la historia comienza a escalar para transformarse en una salvaje alegoria del llamado amor loco. Mas de alguna simbologia surrealista y segundas lecturas religiosas que transcurren en decorados pesadillescos que aportan una sordidez asfixiante. La arruinan un par de interpretaciones paurperrimas, pero sigue siendo un deber para los fanaticos del genio hispano. Titulo original: Abismos de Pasion. Buena. See more 06/24/2010 A sub-par Bunuel which I didn't care for. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis The English Moors are transformed to the Mexican country in this adaptation of Emily Bronte's novel of obsessive love.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Producer
Oscar Dancigers
Screenwriter
Luis Buñuel, Pierre Unik, Julio Alejandro, Dino Maiuri, Luis Buñuel, Emily Brontë
Production Co
Producciones Tepeyac
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Streaming)
May 12, 2020
Runtime
1h 30m