Tristana [Blu-ray]

Director: Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel

Overview

After the death of her mother, Tristana goes to live with her guardian Don Lope, who seduces her. She runs away from Lope with a young artist named Horacio. Unable to commit to Horacio and in need of health care due to her growing cancer, Tristana returns to Don Lope.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/12/2013
UPC:	0741952741893
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	Cohen Media Group
Language:	English
Time:	1:39:00

Special Features

Audio Commentary with Catherine Deneuve and Critic Kent Jones 2012; Alternate Ending; Visual Essay Featurette with Peter William Evans; 2012 Restoration Trailer; Original French Theatrical Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Catherine Deneuve	Tristana
Fernando Rey	Don Lope
Franco Nero	Horacio
Lola Gaos	Saturna
Antonio Casas	Don Cosme
Jose Calvo	Bellringer
Fernando Cebrian	Dr. Miquis
Jesus Fernandez	Saturno
Mary Paz Pondal	Girl
Sergio Mendizabal	Professor
Antonio Ferrandis	Antiquarian
Joaquín Pamplona	Actor
Jose Blanch	Actor
Luis Aller	Actor
Luis Rico	Actor
Vincent Solder	Actor
Saturno Cerra	Actor
Jesus Combarro	Actor,Actor
Leo Lenoir Scarino	Actor
Vicente Roca	Actor
Ximenez Carrillo	Actor
Jose Riesgo	Actor
Rosa Gorostegui	Actor
Antonio Cintado	Actor
José María Caffarel	monsieur Zenón
Cándida Losada	une citoyenne
Pilar Vela	Actor
Lorenzo Rodriguez	Actor
Juan Jose Menendez	Don Cándido
Vicente Soler	Don Ambrosio
Adriano Domínguez	le policier
Frédéric Chopin	Composer
Juanjo Menéndez	monsieur Cándido
Alfredo Santacruz	Actor
Leonardo Scavino	Actor
Rosa Luisa Goróstegui	Actor
José Blanchet	le commandant
Ximénez Carillo	Actor

Technical Credits

Luis Buñuel

Julio Alejandro

Benito Pérez Galdós

Robert Dorfmann	Producer
Luis Buñuel	Producer,Screenwriter,Director
Julio Alejandro	Screenwriter
Julian Ruiz	Special Effects
Benito Pérez Galdós	Screenwriter
Bernardino Fronzetti	Sound Effects
Manuel Ferreiro	Sound Effects
José Nogueira	Sound Effects

Editorial Reviews

This is a typically brilliant film by Luis Buñuel, with the old master at the top of his late form as a European master. The outlines of Buñuel's career are well known, from the surrealist provocateur (with Salvador Dali) of Un Chien Andalou (1929) and L' Âge d'Or (1930), the brutal documentarian of Las Hurdes (1933), and then a long break from the director's chair while Buñuel busied himself with supervising the Spanish version of mediocre Hollywood films, working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and then finally packing up and moving to Mexico to restart his career. There, he moved into one of the worst areas of Mexico City, and after two conventional but lightweight entertainments, created Los Olvidados (1950), perhaps the ultimate condemnation of life in the slums, and won Best Director at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival for his efforts, along with numerous other honors. Thereafter, Buñuel was unstoppable, and progressed through a series of violent and hallucinatory films in Mexico in the 1950s and '60s, moving his production base to Spain and then France in the 1970s. Tristana belongs to this last period in Buñuel's career, along with La Voie Lactée (1969) and Belle de Jour (1967). Buñuel regular Fernando Rey (most famous for his role as Alain Charnier, the unscrupulous heroin dealer in William Friedkin's The French Connection [1971]) stars as Don Lope, an aging figure of respectability who becomes the guardian of Tristana (Catherine Deneuve), a young woman with whom he is soon completely smitten. The film is essentially a contest of wills between the two, with Don Lope initially in control, and rapidly losing ground as his sexual obsession overcomes his bourgeois sensibility. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1971, and Buñuel would direct only three more films before his death: Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie (1972), Le Fantôme de la Liberté (1974), and Cet Obscur Objet du Désir (1977). In his old age, Buñuel mellowed, but never lost his bite; these final films are the works of a master at the peak of his powers, still defiantly making films to please only one person: himself.