CINE ESPAÑOL
LUIS BUÑUEL 

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Buñuel, Luis

A Propósito de Buñuel
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: Lanzamiento 24/10/2001 Duration: 105 min Language: French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $39.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
“Entre dos aguas: haciéndose el inocente, para poder defenderse en caso necesario...Descatolizado hasta el punto que puede serlo un español, que no es demasiado...Hipócrita en el buen sentido de la palabra, que lo tiene. Atrevido sin querer. Amigo del desacato a las autoridades siempre que no entrañe peligro para él...Nada rencoroso; cascarrabias a veces; algo quisquilloso; malicioso... No le importan las mentiras si no provienen o buscan enredos, jamás toma el rábano por las hojas...Terco, pertinaz, casado con sus opiniones, porfiado, cabezudo, tieso que tieso, pero no duro de mollera...Prejuicios, pero capaz fácilmente de echarlos por la borda... inteligente, crítico arbitrario y, por tanto excelente.” .Max Aub.
Menús interactivos, Acceso directo a escenas, Filmografías, Notas de producción

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Abismos de Pasión
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1954 Duration: 90 mins. Language: In Spanish   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $39.00 Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
Tras diez años de ausencia, Alejandro regresa a El Robledal, la hacienda en la que vivió de niño junto a sus padres y hermanos adoptivos. La relación con sus hermanos, Catalina y Ricardo, siempre fue singular, desarrollando una pasión enfermiza por Catalina y soportando las humillaciones de Ricardo, quien lo trató como a un sirviente. Alejandro espera que su fortuna recién adquirida le permita casarse con Catalina, pero ésta ya ha contraído matrimonio con Eduardo. Despechado, Alejandro se casa con la hermana de su rival y somete a las humillaciones que él sufrió a todos los que considera que han provocado su desgracia.

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El Abismo de la Pasión / Wuthering Heights
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1953 Duration: 90 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC  (LEA- SEARCH) Price: Ask for price quote
A wonderfully twisted adaption of Emily Bronte's famed novel, set in Mexico. Alternatively titled The Abyss of Passion, the film was called "a magical example of how an artist of genius can take someone else's classic work and shape it to fit his own temperament without violating it" (Vincent Canby). Spanish with English subtitles.

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Belle de Jour
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: France Date Issued: 1967 Duration: 100 mins. Language: French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $28.00   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $39.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
A masterpiece from Luis Bunuel in which the cool Catherine Deneuve sparkles as a respectable middle-class wife with a very contented husband, who finds a day job in a brothel that gives her an outlet for deeper, darker passions. "Bunuel constructs both a clear portrait of the bourgeoisie as degenerate, dishonest and directionless, and an unhysterical depiction of Deneuve's inner fantasy life where she entertains dreams of humiliations galore" (Geoff Andrew). French with English subtitles.
Letterboxed. Includes audio commentary by Bunuel scholar Julie Jones, original and re-release trailers, and optional English-dubbed track.

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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1955 Duration: 91 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC (FMM) Price: $49.00
Archibaldo believes a musical box he owned as a youth had the power to kill. He still believes he can kill women and, in fact, confesses to several murders. Bunuel delivers a hilarious portrait of a frustrated sadist who "is an artist…His crimes are his very conscious, aesthetic attempts to revive a delicious sensation" (Raymond Durgnat). With Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava and Rita Macedo. Spanish with English subtitles.
Letterboxed. Includes audio commentary by Bunuel scholar Julie Jones, original and re-release trailers, and optional English-dubbed track.

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Diary of a Chambermaid
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: France Date Issued: 1964 Duration: 97 mins. Language: French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $45.00   Format: VHS-NTSC (FMM) Price: $45.00
great Bunuel film in which he updated the famous Mirbeau novel about the decadent French upper classes of the 19th century to 1928. Jeanne Moreau plays the chambermaid, both demure and cunning, who takes a position in a cheerless chateau, and immediately becomes the newest "object d'art" for a whole family of perfectly ordinary perverts, from the shoe-fetishist father to the gamekeeper, who is a reactionary and a rapist. In French with English subtitles.
Letterboxed Criterion Collection edition. Includes interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, reprinted Bunuel interview, and original theatrical trailer.

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: France Date Issued: 1972 Duration: 100 mins. Language: French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $55.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price: $45.00
Six characters are forever trying to sit down for a meal, but bizarre events--dreams, fantasies, guests, terrorists--interfere. Bunuel's brilliant satire lampoons the church, diplomats, wealthy socialites and radical terrorists and is a pure joy to watch. With Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Michel Piccoli. Academy Award winner, Best Foreign Film. Winner, Best Film, National Society of Film Critics. French with English subtitles.      Letterboxed. Includes original theatrical trailer.
Letterboxed, 2-disc special edition. Includes "The Survivor on the Street of Providence" (Arturo Ripstein/Rafael Castanedo, Mexico, 1970), a documentary short on Bunuel; A Proposito de Bunuel (Jose Luis Lopez Linares/Javier Rioyo, Mexico, 2000), a feature-length documentary portrait; theatrical trailer; Bunuel's perfect martini recipe and more.

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Él / This Strange Passion
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1952 Duration: 88 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC Price:   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $35.00 Format: VHS-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $39.00
The psychological study of a man obsessed. A wealthy, middle-aged man marries a young woman and then develops a paranoid obsession with her supposed infidelity. One of the great films from Bunuel's Mexican period, the black humor of El failed to be appreciated by critics at the time of its release. It is now considered one of the most representative of Bunuel's personal mythology. Spanish with English subtitles.

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El Bruto
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1952 Duration: 83 mins. Language: French with NO English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $25.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
A powerful social melodrama which deals with a corrupt landlord who decides he needs a strong-arm man to intimidate his restless tenants. El Bruto, played by Pedro Armendariz, is the thick-headed slaughterhouse worker loyal to the exploiters. Bruto is lusted after by his employer's frustrated wife and at the same time longs for an innocent girl whose father he unfortunately beat to death. In Spanish with NO English subtitles.      Includes filmographies and biographies.

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El Angel Exterminador / The Exterminating Angel
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1962 Duration: 95 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $28.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price: $49.00
A metaphorically rich and comic film, Exterminating Angel is the story of guests invited to an elegant dinner party who find they are unable to leave at the end of the evening. A mysterious force compels them to stay…and stay…and stay. After several days, their well-heeled social facades collapse as hunger, thirst, fear, and boredom send them into a frenzy. Bunuel stated that this film is "a metaphor, a deeply felt, disturbing reflection of the life of modern man, a witness to the fundamental preoccupations of our time." It is certainly one of Bunuel's greatest achievements. Spanish with English subtitles.

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Ensayo de un Crimen
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1955 Duration: 90 mins. Language: In Spanish   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $39.00 Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
Durante la Revolución Mejicana de 1910, el niño Archibaldo de la Cruz, hijo único de una familia burguesa, se prueba el corsé de mamá, mientras una cajita de música deja oír un minué. La muerte de su institutriz hace creer al niño que él la ha provocado, con la aparente ayuda de la caja de música. En el suelo, el cadáver de la mujer ofrece a los ojos fascinados de Archibaldo sus muslos con ligueros, lo que le lleva a descubrir simultáneamente l erotismo y la muerte.

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La Fiebre Sube al Pao / Fever Mounts in El Pao
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1959 Duration: 97 mins. Language: English dubbed.   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $35.00 Format: VHS-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $49.00
Gerard Philipe's last film, set on an island off the coast of Latin America. Philipe portrays Vazquez, the idealistic secretary to a corrupt and callous governor. When he eventually becomes governor himself, he betrays his humane idealism. Bunuel skillfully blends melodrama with acute political analysis of how systems subvert individuals. English dubbed.

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Gran Casino
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1947 Duration: 85 mins. Language: In Spanish WITHOUT English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $35.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
The first feature film by master filmmaker Luis Bunuel to be made during his stint in Mexico, this musical western is standard genre fare, boasting few of the social criticisms and surrealist elements of his earlier and later periods. Nevertheless, Jorge Negrete and Libertad Lamarque give spirited performances, and the zany plot--part gangster film, part adventure musical--is undeniably lively. In Spanish WITHOUT English subtitles.

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L'Age D'Or
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1930 Duration: 62 mins. Language: French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $39.00   Format: VHS-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $39.00
Bunuel's masterpiece extolls love and attacks religion and the social order in an amazing assemblage of images that remain no less provocative today than they were in 1930. Its central metaphor is a couple making love who are continually disturbed by the intrusions of officialdom, police and the Church. It remains one of the most unashamedly erotic films ever made, with a famous toe-sucking sequence. Financed by the Vicomte de Noailles, who gave Bunuel complete freedom and declared it "exquisite and delicious," the film immediately became the object of right-wing extremists and remained unseen for generations because of the Church's threat to excommunicate the Vicomte if the film were distributed. With Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst and Pierre Prevert. French with English subtitles.
Includes audio commentary, stills gallery, filmography, optional english subtitles.

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La Joven / The Young One
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico-USA Date Issued: 1960 Duration: 95 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $39.00 Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
Miller, el guarda de un coto, vive en una desierta isla cerca de la costa americana. El otro habitante de la isla es Evvie, una chica inocente e ingenua de 13 años, hacía quien Miller se siente irresistiblemente atraido al descubrir que se está convertiendo en mujer. Cuando llega Traver, un inocente músico negro huyendo de una acusación falsa de violación, Miller quiere delatarle y deshacerse de él. Pero Traver se convierte en protector de la joven y le gusta. Cuando un sacerdote llega para llevarse a Evvie descubre que Traver se esconde allí y que Miller ha abusado sexualmente de la adolescente.
Luis Bunuel's only American film is a powerful work about racism and sexual exploitation. A northern black jazz clarinetist (Bernie Hamilton) fleeing from false rape charges turns up on a small island off the Carolina coast and finds himself being hunted by a game warden (Zachary Scott). The sheriff's racial bigotry flares openly, though he is concealing his own perverse sexual fixation on a beautiful young nymphet (Kay Meersman). "A film that is realistically simple in all its parts, and realistically complex in its total picture of life and people" (Newsweek). With Crahan Denton and Claudio Brook.

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Los Olvidados
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1950 Duration: 81 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $35.00
A milestone of filmmaking; Bunuel's great film looks at the lives of young people growing up in the slums of Mexico, and in particular, at the desperately inevitable process by which an older, more corrupt gang leader, Jacob, hounds and destroys the younger, more innocent Pedro, before being destroyed himself. Spanish with English subtitles.

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La Vía Láctea / The Milky Way
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1968 Duration: 102 mins. Language: French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC (LEA- SEARCH) Price: $29.00
Luis Bunuel's truly outrageous and very funny satire on the Catholic church and church ritual, and a road movie in its own right. Two tramps on a pilgrimage encounter the Devil, the Virgin Mary, and different arguments about Catholic doctrine. French with English subtitles.

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Nazarín
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1958 Duration: 92 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC (LEA- SEARCH) Price:
A simple priest tries to live by Christian precepts in one of Luis Bunuel's best--and most unjustly neglected--films. "I am very much attached to Nazarin," said Bunuel. "He is a priest. He could as well be a hairdresser or a waiter. What interests me about him is that he stands by his ideas, that these ideas are unacceptable to society at large, and that after his adventures with prostitutes, thieves and so forth, they lead him to being irrevocably damned by the prevailing social order." With Francisco Rabal, Marga Lopez and Rita Macedo. Spanish with English subtitles.

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Phantom of Liberty
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: France Date Issued: 1974 Duration: 102 mins. Language: In French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $45.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
One of Bunuel's masterpieces of surrealism, this loosely structured series of anecdotes deals with the concept of freedom. A daisy-chain of characters move through this cinema of dreams and absurdity, demonstrating the cosmic comedy of humans who constantly enslave themselves in order to be free. The lightest and liveliest of Bunuel's films filled with riddles, jokes and outrageous associations ridiculing the power to reason. In French with English subtitles.
Criterion Collection Edition. Includes video introduction by screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, original theatrical trailer, new and improved English subtitle translation, essay by cultural critic Gary Indiana, and more.

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Robinson Crusoe
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1952 Duration: 90 mins. Language: Spanish   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $28.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price: $25.00
Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel's first English-language film, produced while the director was in self-imposed exile in Mexico, is an adaptation of Daniel Dafoe's novel about the infamous shipwreck victim. A fine rendition of the classic tale of survival, with Bunuel throwing in a few subtle jabs at religion and the complacency of society. This was also the first of Bunuel's films to be shot in color.
Includes an interview with Dan O'Herlihy, biographies, filmographies, behind-the-scenes stories, a collectible pressbook reproduction, a poster and photo gallery, and a restoration comparison.

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Simón del Desierto / Simon of the Desert
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1965 Duration: 40 mins. Language: In Spanish WITHOUT English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $59.00   Format: VHS-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $45.00
Bunuel's outrageous satire of the Church has Simon sitting on top of a pillar in the Mexican desert, haunted by the Devil in all forms. Often called the greatest short film of all time, Bunuel's wit has never been more deadly, his surrealist vision never clearer. In Spanish WITHOUT English subtitles.
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Susana
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1951 Duration: 87 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC  (LEA- SEARCH) Price: Ask for price quote
Susana is the story of a delinquent girl who escapes from detention and hides out on a remote finca, where she destroys the rigid, uptight family with her immoral scheming. Despite the conventional melodramatic structure, Susana displays Bunuel's surreal fascination with the illusion of conventions. Spanish with English subtitles.

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That Obscure Object of Desire
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: France Date Issued: 1977 Duration: 104 mins. Language: In French with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $59.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price: $45.00
A final masterpiece from Bunuel, in which he uses two actresses playing one role to illustrate the unfathomable nature of sexual obsession. Starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, and Angela Molina. "Triumphantly funny and wise...Bunuel creates a vision of a world as logical as a theorem, as mysterious as a dream, and as funny as a vaudeville gag" (Vincent Canby, The New York Times). In French with English subtitles.
Criterion Collection edition. Includes interview with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli's 1929 silent La Femme et le Pantin (based on the same book), reprinted interview with Bunuel, and theatrical trailer.

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Tristana
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1970 Duration: 98 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $125.00   Format: DVD- PAL (DVD-SP-LEA) Price: $39.00 Format: VHS-NTSC Price: $40.00
The stunning Catherine Deneuve is Tristana, a victim of her own captivating beauty who is desired by two men. The first is her lecherous guardian (played by the great Fernando Rey) who, after raising her from a teenager, takes her as his mistress. The other is a young artist (Franco Nero) who wants to marry her but lacks the courage to free her from the corrupt relationship with her guardian. Set in 1920's Spain, Tristana is a scathing examination of moral decay viewed through Bunuel's typically dispassionate and ironic eyes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Un Chien Andalou
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1929 Duration: 17 mins. Language:   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $29.00   Format: VHS-NTSC Price:
Filmed in Paris in 1929, Un Chien Andalou is a landmark in the history of cinema. Based on an exchange of dreams between the Spanish duo of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, this jolting tale of desire contains one of the most notorious and potently metaphoric sequences in film history: a razor severing a woman's eyeball in extreme close-up. Drawing from the vivid lives of their subconsciouses, Bunuel and Dali's only rule was to reject any idea that might lend itself to any rational explanation. Intended to provoke rather than please (Bunuel saw it as an "appeal to murder"), the film's power to shock the viewer remains undiminished after 75 years.
Collector's Edition includes 38 mins. of extras, including an interview with Bunuel's son, Juan-Luis, Epilogue: Dali & Bunuel featurette, commentary by Surrealism expert Stephen Barber, and a booklet containing an abridged transcript of Luis Bunuel's 1953 address: Mystery of Cinema.

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Un Chien Andalou  / Land Without Bread
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1928-32 Duration: 42 mins. Language:   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC (FMM) Price: $39.00
Two great early films by Luis Bunuel: Un Chien Andalou continues to shock audiences today as it did in 1928; Land Without Bread is a horrifying account of one of Spain's most desolate regions, a documentary masterpiece made all the more harrowing for its travelogue style.

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Viridiana
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1961 Duration: 90 mins. Language: In Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $49.00   Format: VHS-NTSC  (FMM) Price: $49.00
Bunuel's outrageous and devastating attack on religion and society. Viridiana, about to take her vows as a nun, takes to the pure Christian life by organizing a haven for a blind man, leper, cripple and beggar. Full of Freudian symbolism, the film ends in a famous orgy of destruction, containing Bunuel's blasphemous scene of the Last Supper. The film that got Bunuel kicked out of Spain. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Criterion Collection Edition. Letterboxed. Includes video interview with author Richard Porton, essay by film historian Michael Wood, trailer, and more. NOT YET RELEASED: - Available on 02/28/2006, Order

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A Woman Without Love
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Mexico Date Issued: 1951 Duration: 91 mins. Language:   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC  (LEA- SEARCH) Price: Ask for price quote
Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant. Set in a decaying mansion, a young wife has a brief secret affair, separates from her lover, and then bears his son. Bunuel makes ample use of the gothic setting in the mansion which is part home, part antiques, part a tomb, in a surrealist plumbing of a bizarre love story. Spanish with English subtitles.

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El Abismo de la Pasión / Wuthering Heights
	Director: Luis Buñuel Country: Spain Date Issued: 1953 Duration: 90 mins. Language: Spanish with English subtitles.   Format: DVD-NTSC  Price:   Format: VHS-NTSC  (LEA- SEARCH) Price: Ask for price quote
A wonderfully twisted adaption of Emily Bronte's famed novel, set in Mexico. Alternatively titled The Abyss of Passion, the film was called "a magical example of how an artist of genius can take someone else's classic work and shape it to fit his own temperament without violating it" (Vincent Canby). Spanish with English subtitles.

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