Tristana1970
Tristana (1970)
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Cast
as Tristana
as Don Lope
as Horacio
as Saturna
as Don Cosme
as Bellringer
as Dr. Miquis
as Saturno
as Senora Burguesa
as Girl
as Professor
as Antiquarian
as Civil Officer
as Don Joaquín
as Comandante
as Don Candido
as Don Ambrosio
Critic Reviews for Tristana
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The rigid rituals of duty and honor form an inextricable bond of pleasure and degradation, of sex and death-and render sin all the more exciting.
You can almost sense the director's pleasure in taking apart the duplicities of a patriarchal Spanish society, the long-standing sexual double standard for men and one young woman's revolt against convention.
As much as this tale of bent love runs in the ruts of its maker's obsessions, it has an undertow that's impossible to shake.
As Don Lope, Fernando Rey is superb.
Rey is brilliant as the mephistophelean, anti-clerical Socialist, dandy and outmoded master of social graces: father, lover and husband all in one.
A haunting study of a human relationship in which the power changes hands.
Audience Reviews for Tristana
The dubbing of Deneuve's voice into Spanish seems to diminish the impact of her performance, but sill this a fascinating story of power, hypocrisy, resentment and bitterness as seen through the eyes of two complex characters in a society dominated by religious and patriarchal values.
Super Reviewer
An old man (Fernando Rey) becomes obsessed with an beautiful orphan girl (Catherine Denueve) whom he adopts; she leaves him but returns when she loses her leg. All of Luis Bunuel's usual intelligence and obsessiveness is on display here, but there's little passion or magic in this melodrama that's only slightly twisted. TRISTANA serves as a breather between the masterpieces BELLE DE JOUR and DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE.
Super Reviewer
Pretty interesting but nothing special.
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