When young Tristana’s mother dies, she goes to live with her guardian, the libertine aristocrat Don Lope, who quickly takes advantage of her. But as she grows older, Tristana starts to find her voice and seeks independence. She begins an affair with artist Horacio, much to the dismay of Don Lope.
One of Luis Buñuel landmark films, Tristana was adapted from Benito Pérez Galdós’ novel and stars the hypnotic Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey. Full of erotic manipulation and symbolic actions, this in an idiosyncratic assault on bourgeois moralism, set in the conservative Spain of the 1930s.