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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

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Date: 20 Apr 2015 22:31:00
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

Ensayo de un crimen (1955) + El (1953)
A Films by Luis Buñuel
DVD9 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | 01:26:20 + 01:27:39 | 7,45 Gb
Audio: Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, French
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama / Drama

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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) - IMDB

"Criminal Life of Archibaldo De La Cruz" is comedy of Don Luis' Mexican period which is surreal, disturbing, erotic and funny satire about a perverted young and wealthy man, an amateur sculptor. Since he was a boy, and one evening witnessed the sudden death of his young attractive governess and became sexually aroused by it, Archibaldo De La Cruz dreams of committing a perfect crime of an attractive woman to recreate the feeling but something always prevents him from fulfilling his dreams. It does not mean that the deaths would not occur -it is just that Archibaldo can't take a credit for them.

Wikipedia | Rotten Tomatoes


The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

"Ensayo de un Crimen" describes a man that after a childhood experience intimately connected with a music box revels in murder dreams - sex, pleasure and murder being intimately linked: In the time of the Mexican revolution his baby-sitter was killed by a stray bullet in front of him. As she is lying there dead and defenseless, blood running down her throat, going down her thighs, the boy feels deep pleasure and power. All this is punctuated by the sound of a musical box. In the chaos of the times the musical box disappears and these feelings are buried and forgotten. One day, Archibaldo de la Cruz, already a grown man, finds that musical box in a shop and, barely concealing his excitement, buys it and his old dreams come to the surface again.

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

In the beginning of the film (after a mysterious accident suffered by a nun), he goes to the police station in order to confess a murder and tells the story of his life to the police chief. His life is shown in flashbacks and shows the life he led and the women he met. From now on it is difficult to tell reality from dreams.

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

Buñuel is a very good actor's director and aptly describes the straight-jacket morality of the time where official marriage is mandatory (for women this is like a prison where the warder is her husband), and the icons of the catholic church are a dominant presence. Here are the essential elements present in the films of Buñuel. Fantasy/ Reality, double-standard morality and the church - the only road to freedom seems surrealism, fantasy overtaking reality.

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

Buñuel's films are sensuous and full of atmosphere and here as usual reality is not what it seems. Even if he, in his early Mexican films, seems to make concessions to the producers, you will notice under the surface all the themes that obsessed Buñuel and that would come to the foreground in films like "Viridiana", "El Angel Exterminador", "Belle de Jour" etc..
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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

El (1953) - IMDB

"El" (1953) aka "This Strange Passion" is more disturbing than funny portrait of an aristocrat, Arturo de Cordova, attractive, rich, religious middle-aged man who goes completely insane because of his pathological jealousy. What he decided to do to his young wife to punish her for the acts of infidelity that she had committed strictly in his mind, is very scary. Of course, it is Bunuel and the film has as much drama as his typical irony and dark humor but it is very dark. This is nothing light about obsessions - jealousy is an incurable and insatiable monster.

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The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

As his most technically accomplished Mexican-period movie, and almost a mainstream one, this film can be an enjoyable first introduction into Buñuel's obsessions: the same ones that ruled the surrealistic movement. The underground psychological streams in the mind are finely expressed in this story of a pathological jealous and his victim. In his Mexican exile, Buñuel was forced to make "nourishing movies", that were the most conventional ones in his filmography, but he managed to smuggle his surrealistic ideals into all of them (even he could make the absolutely surrealistic "The Exterminating Angel").

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

Based on an autobiographic novel by Spanish fellow countrywoman Mercedes Pinto, this film is the vehicle for displaying many marvelous surreal moments. It can also be viewed as a brilliant clinical recreation of paranoid distress, but Buñuel recognized that the protagonist, Francisco Galván, although insane, had many of his own obsessions: his view of love as an absolute imperative, the violent impulses, the fetishism for female feet…The story shifts from one point of view to another, which is the only way to understand the "two stories" in psychotic disorders.

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

Part of the story and many of the ideas were used later by Hitchcock for his masterpiece "Vertigo (From among the dead)". It is difficult to say plagiarism when talking about cinema, but this would be one occasion for it. It is not coincidence that both directors share a taste for the expressive properties of objects (not only as Macguffin); as two reluctantly catholic directors, objects usually act as "sacraments" for their narrative. In "El" the church and its symbols are the background for the repression and the blooming of instincts; other Buñuel's stories may be more connected with religion than this one, but "El" shows a life absolutely permeated by the relationship of primary impulses ("eros" and "thanatos") with spiritual transcend ency. With churches as the setting of the key moments of the story (desire, love encounter, the urge for murder, disappointment), church is at the beginning and the ending of this story narrated by the man who said "Thank God, I'm an atheist".

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) + El (1953) [Re-UP]

Although was filmed in three weeks, in the midst of the limitations of Mexican film industry, the movie is close to perfection in formal terms. In contrast with his previous movies, in which a still camera was predominant, in this one the camera movements are constant. The performances and the choice of cast is the most accurate of the Buñuel's Mexican-period.
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