El Bruto
Luis Buñuel
Cabrera is a rich and unscrupulous man who is trying to sell a plot of land that he owns. The only shadow on the horizon is that the plot is occupied by the inhabitants of a building. They refuse to be evicted and set up their defence. Cabrera, hires a henchman, called Pedro, aka "El Bruto", who puts pressure on the inhabitants to evict them. But his mission takes on a new direction when he falls madly in love with Meche, the daughter of one of the inhabitants...
With : Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Andrés Soler, Beatriz Ramas, Paco Martínez, Roberto Meyer, Gloria Mestre, Paz Villegas
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza
Image : Agustín Jiménez
Sound : Javier Mateos
Music : Raúl Lavista
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Jorge Bustos
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Luis Alcoriza
Image : Agustín Jiménez
Sound : Javier Mateos
Music : Raúl Lavista
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Jorge Bustos
Production : Internacional Cinematográfica
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Behind a vision of an apparently simplistic woman, hide characters filled with ambiguity. The sensuality which radiates from the character of Paloma provides Buñuel with an opportunity to focus on the evocative power of images. "Erotically, pornography is negative as it exhausts everything, leaving no place for the imagination, has no mystery. However, seeing eroticism as a possibility, suggesting it, no more, is much better". Working with contrasts, El Bruto (The Brute) reminds us that purity and love can survive in a world which is nevertheless sullied by hatred and excess. "A poem by Breton says that love is a secret ceremony celebrated in the dark, at the end of a tunnel" (Luis Buñuel). It is difficult not to find an echo of this in El Bruto.