Luis Alcoriza

Satirizing the paradoxes that exist in Mexican society, Rogelio A. González’s macabre cult classic twists the knife into the hypocrisies of middle-class respectability with outrageous glee. Unafraid to be uproariously villainous, Arturo de Córdova turns taxidermy—and murder—into a carnivalesque act.

Shot in brilliant Eastmancolor, Death in the Garden is one of Luis Buñuel’s most overlooked gems: a pulsating, far-side-of-the-world adventure film alive with the master’s surrealist gestures and subversive attitude. The star-studded cast includes Simone Signoret and Michel Piccoli.