Synopsis
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.
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Cast
- Catherine DeneuveTristana
- Fernando ReyDon Lope
- Franco NeroHoracio
- Lola GaosSaturna
- Antonio CasasDon Cosme
- Jesús FernándezSaturno
- Vicente SolerDon Ambrosio
- José CalvoBellringer
- Fernando CebriánDr. Miquis
- Antonio FerrandisComprador
Recommendations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
A few great directors have the ability to draw us into their dream world, into their personalities and obsessions and fascinate us with them for a short time. This is the highest level of escapism the movies can provide for us. - 100
Chicago Reader
Buñuel conjures with Freudian imagery, outrageous humor, and a quiet, lyrical camera style to create one of his most complex and complete works, a film that continues to disturb and transfix. - 90
The New York Times
Buñuel has made a marvelously complex, funny and vigorously moral movie that also is, to me, his most perfectly cast film. [21 Sept. 1970] - 90
Los Angeles Times
The film, which came out in 1970 after a censorship battle with the Franco regime, catches — and releases — all the tension of shifting sexual mores. You can almost sense the director's pleasure in taking apart the duplicities of a patriarchal Spanish society. [21 Feb. 2013] - 88
Boston Globe
As much as this tale of bent love runs in the ruts of its maker’s obsessions, it has an undertow that’s impossible to shake. [22 Nov. 2012] - 80
Variety
Those seeking the Bunuel touches of black humor, digs at Church and Establishment, irreverence and criticism, and an overall condemnation of Spanish mores and hypocrisy, will find a modicum of scenes here to titillate their palates. Yet Bunuel, despite occasional digs, has remained more or less respectful. - 75
Slant Magazine
There are more than a few striking images and intriguing ideas to be extracted from Tristana. [10 Oct. 2012]
