Él

Él (1953)

Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.

Date of release
1953-07-09
TMDB
7.7 / 10 (167)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Luis Buñuel

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Mexico

Él, is a 1953 Mexican film by Luis Buñuel based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto. The film explores several of Buñuel's signature cinematic themes, most notably a romance warped by a bourgeois husband's obsessive paranoia, interspersed with distinct surrealist touches. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

After completing the initial filming of Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and its release being indefinitely delayed, Buñuel decided to adapt Mercedes Pinto's novel Pensamientos about a paranoid husband. Buñuel also added personal memories of his sister Conchita's paranoid husband, who once mistakenly thought he saw Buñuel making vulgar faces at him on the street and went home to get his gun until his family finally convinced him that Buñuel was livi…

Buñuel later complained about how fast he was forced to shoot the film and that he wanted to remake it. He stated that "I did what I did in most of my Mexican films. They proposed a subject to me and instead of it, I made a counter-offer which, though still commercial, seemed more propitious for examining the things that interested me." Buñuel's producer hired Yucatán-born Mexican actor Arturo de Córdova for the lead role of Francisco Galvan de M…

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