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A Woman Without Love

1951, Movie, NR, 90 mins

A Woman Without Love: Review

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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 and is befriended by construction foreman Julio Mistral, who returns him to the shop, where Julio is welcomed as a friend and embraced by the boy's gracious father. Julio and Rosario exchange glances and later, when her husband has left the room, make their desires known. Eventually, unable to control their attraction to one another, they makes plans to escape to Brazil with the boy. Time passes, however, Rosario has another son, and life takes a perverse twist. As he did so successfully, if in varying degrees, during his Mexican period, Bunuel here again injects his own, surrealist obsession-with-obsessions into an otherwise routine melodrama (which bears little resemblance in tone to Maupassant's original). Love and passion control all, guiding the actions and twisting the fate of their victims, and assaulting the concept of family in the process. (In Spanish; English subtitles.) leave a comment
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