Film
El
Mon, May 20, 2013
- 7PM
- 9:30PM
LOCATION:
RUN TIME: 92min
RATED: NR
FORMAT: 35mm
GENERAL ADMISSION: $13
MEMBERS: $8
STUDENTS/SENIORS:
$9 (29 and under with a valid ID, Mon—Thu)
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May 2013
Monday May 20, 2013
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Part of
BAMcinématek 2013
series Booed at Cannes
Directed by Luis Buñuel
With Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Carlos Martínez Baena, Manuel Dondé, Fernando Casanova
“One of Luis Buñuel's crowning achievements”
—Slant Magazine
Hardly a stranger to controversy, Buñuel faced a particularly tough audience at the Cannes premiere of this Mexican production. According to Georges Sadoul, “the jury described it as a bad B-picture and it was booed by 200 war veterans.” In truth, El is a perverse, sacred-cow-skewering portrait of a husband gripped by insane jealousy, a film so effective that Jacques Lacan screened it for his students as an exemplar of irrational paranoia.
In Spanish with English subtitles