The Criminal Life Of Archibaldo De La Cruz

Luis Bunuel's THE CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ is a deliciously perverse and erotic black comedy about a misogynist with a pathological compulsion to kill women, but whose elaborate murder attempts are continually thwarted.

While recovering from a nervous breakdown after the death of his wife, Archibaldo de la Cruz (Ernesto Alonso) tells a nun that as a spoiled child, he believed he was responsible for the death of his governess after she was shot while he wished to his magical music box that she would die. He then pulls out a razor blade and starts towards the nun, but she runs away and falls down an elevator shaft. He tells the police that he killed ...