Tristana

A tauting black comedy with Surrealist touches. Bunuel's reworking of Benito Perez Galdos' novel, like all the works of this prolific filmmaker, has much beneath its surface. In a role that capitalizes on her placid beauty, Deneuve is a young woman who becomes the ward of hypocritical aristocrat Rey, who makes much of the fact that he hasn't taken advantage of her beauty. The truth is--he has. Prior to receiving an inheritance from his sister, the more-or-less-impoverished Rey refuses to take a job because he believes a man of his social standing is above menial labor. Instead, he sells all his belongings. At the same time he sees himself as a leader of the common ...