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Susana
Susana
7.1
/10
307 Ratings

SUSANA

Directed by Luis Buñuel
Mexico, 1951
Drama

Synopsis

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household…

Synopsis

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household…

Our take

Controversial master Luis Buñuel did his part in the era of declining censorship with The Devil and the Flesh (also known as Susana, after its sultry protagonist), which explores unstoppable sexual impulse in all its absurd glory.