Luis Bunuel's rarely seen adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's "Pierre et Jean" begins in an antique shop run by dealer Carlos Montero and Rosario, the working-class woman he saved from a life of poverty (along with her family) by marrying her. Although Rosario works in the shop, her
husband runs the business just as he completely controls her home life. When Carlos is informed by the school principal that his son, Carlito, was caught stealing, he explodes with rage and plans the boy's punishment without even hearing his son's version of the story. Rosario objects, telling her
husband that he can treat her without love, but not her son. The boy eventually runs away an...
Released:
1951
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins