Susana, Demonio y Carne
Luis Buñuel
One night Susana manages to escape from the borstal she has been locked up in. She is taken in by an honest family and begins working in the hacienda as a maid. But Susanna is beautiful and knows it. In seducing the men of the house she sows the seeds of discord...
With : Fernando Soler, Matilde Palau, Luis López Somoza, Rosita Quintana, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, María Gentil Arcos
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Manuel Reachi, Jaime Salvador, Rodolfo Usigli
Image : José Ortiz Ramos
Sound : Nicolas de la Rosa
Music : Raúl Lavista
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Jorge Bustos
Screenplay : Luis Buñuel, Manuel Reachi, Jaime Salvador, Rodolfo Usigli
Image : José Ortiz Ramos
Sound : Nicolas de la Rosa
Music : Raúl Lavista
Editing : Luis Buñuel, Jorge Bustos
Production : Internacional Cinematográfica, Sergio Kogan, Manuel Reachi
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
In this film Buñuel attacks one of the most sacred social values: the family. Don Guadalupe's represents a model, that is endangered with the arrival of Susana. "In an organised and hierarchical society, sex, which respects no barriers, no laws, can at every moment become a factor for disorder and become a genuine danger". (Luis Buñuel) Susana is the incarnation of Evil, placed at the heart of a highly symbolic backdrop: the stormy, incessant rain becomes premonitory, and the presence of the young woman goes as far as contaminating the health of the animals at the hacienda. Despite the young woman's intense eroticism, the film is content to be suggestive. "I think that it comes from a feeling of shame, of timidity, about anything to do with sexual relations, anything which inspires a sort of physical repulsion", said Julio Alejandro, one of Buñuel's most loyal scriptwriters about him.