Luis Buñuel: La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Luis Buñuel: La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
: La fièvre monte à El Pao – Luis Buñuel (1959)
French | Subtitle: English | 1:35:13 | 512 x 384 NTSC | DivX | MP3 – 60 kbps | 700 MB
Genre: Drama
French | Subtitle: English | 1:35:13 | 512 x 384 NTSC | DivX | MP3 – 60 kbps | 700 MB
Genre: Drama
Cast: Gérard Philipe, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Armando Acosta, Miguel Arenas, Edmundo Barbero, Augusto Benedico
For a director like Luis Bunuel,this is a holding pattern movie.Bunuel is neither Costa Gavras nor Alan J Pakula and his political plot falls short of its goal.What's definitely lacking here is madness,the surrealism,almost present at least in one sequence,dear to the great Spanish artist.His art becomes ineffective when it deals with pure drama.The irony seems tamed,subdued.Maria Felix's part is sometimes some kind of Maupassant's "Boule de suif" (a character from the nineteenth century),sometimes some kind of thirties Marlene Dietrich (Sternberg's "dishonored").In a nutshell,originality is not this character's forte.Gerard Philipe (sadly,soon to die from cancer)is miscast and ill-at -ease ,in his part of "intellectual trying to sweeten the dictature".Nevertheless,he ended his career with something more commendable than the disastrous Vadim's "les liaisons dangereuses".
Luis Buñuel: La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Luis Buñuel: La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Luis Buñuel: La fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
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