A Deneuve Dozen
TRISTANA
DIRECTOR: LUIS BUÑUEL
FRANCE/ITALY/SPAIN, 1970
Buñuel once again employs Deneuve in a chilling surrealist horror story of individuals destroyed by the moral codes of a corrupt society. Set in Toledo in the 1920s, an innocent girl is seduced by her old guardian, whom she eventually comes to surpass in perversity. Full of Freudian imagery and dark, outrageous humor, TRISTANA is “nothing less than the quintessential Buñuel film of all time. ... Never before has Deneuve’s beauty seemed more precise and enigmatic.”—Vincent Canby, New York Times. (95 mins.)