The subject sums it all up. There are definitely rays of hope in the movie, of human kindness, but that just makes the tragedy all the more sad and realistic. The first time a movie has given me such a feeling. The best Bunuel I've seen, even though there aren't many traces of his direction in the movie.
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You have to be kidding!! Bunuel's signature is all over this film from first frame to last frame.
People dissapear ever day...everytime you leave the room - The Passenger
If some movie have the signature of Buñuel on it, That's "Nazarín" one of the most personal works by Luis Buñuel.
Most of Buñuel trademarks are there: his fascination for bugs, bourgeois complacency, religious hypocrisy, repressed sexuality, freaks, weird sequences, etc.
Most of Buñuel trademarks are there: his fascination for bugs, bourgeois complacency, religious hypocrisy, repressed sexuality, freaks, weird sequences, etc.
I think you mean that it little resembles his later European arthouse films, in which case you may be missing the similarities. Nazarin is in fact very Bunuelian, as another poster pointed out. It has all of his signature preoccupations (cynicism toward authority, religion and superstition, sympathy for the poor, a mistrust of lust and sexuality) and leitmotifs (bugs, outcasts, freaks, animals, oneiric scenes of sublimated desire brimming to the surface as in Beatriz's dream). Bunuel's Mexican films are really rich and underestimated.
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