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Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

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Date: 17 Apr 2015 12:52:00
Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

Susana (1951)
DVD5 | ISO | NTSC 4:3 | 01:26:00 | 3,86 Gb
Audio: Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, she causes unrest and discord among the members of the household, until they are virtually fighting with each other.

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Thunder rolls. Lightning flashes across the sky. Inside a reformatory for wayward girls, Susana (Rosita Quintana) is led to a dark, stone-walled cell, kicking and screaming and flailing at the swarthy ladies in white carrying her. It could almost be Doctor Frankenstein’s castle, for all its gothic trappings. Susana’s guttural, animalistic cries are ignored. She’s left alone with bats, rats and spiders scurrying about her cell. They’re more than a little rubbery-looking, but somehow this suits her melodramatic tendencies.

Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

The rest of Susana takes place on a quiet, peaceful Mexican plantation, overseen by the nicest, cleanest Christian family this side of a cereal box. Don Guadalupe (Fernando Soler), owner of the plantation, is firm and fatherly to all his workers. His wife Carmen (Matilde Palou) treats the domestic staff with kindness and humour. Their son Alberto (Luis López Somoza) is a hard-working scholar with a tidy moustache and a catalogued library of his very own.

Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

Buñuel, a lifelong atheist, paints such a sickeningly sweet family portrait that you almost feel they deserve to have the viperish Susana dumped on them. They’re loving and caring and God-fearing - though perhaps not as God-fearing as Felisa, the elderly housemaid who stops just short of carrying around a crucifix on her back.

Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

Felisa (María Gentil Arcos), possibly the best character of all, takes an instant dislike to Susana, and we don’t really blame her. Even if it’s for daft, superstitious reasons, we’re behind crotchety Felisa all the way. After all, the girl is a vindictive home-breaker, a compulsive liar and more than a little slutty. After a long close up on Susana’s ample bosom, Felisa remarks with characteristic wit: “that one wouldn’t look decent in a nun’s habit.”

Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

It’s mostly through Felisa that Buñuel keeps the Old Testament blood-and-thunder rhetoric bubbling away at the surface of Susana. Toying with melodrama and love pentagons, Buñuel has enormous fun undermining the contradiction and confusion of the bible’s “turn the other cheek” and “an eye for an eye” messages.

Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

The whole film might play like Mexican EastEnders if it weren’t for the religion-baiting; it all becomes strangely compelling when even the slightest glance across a dinner table is painted as original sin. Buñuel himself puts it best: “Sex without religion is like cooking an egg without salt. Sin gives more chances to desire.”

Susana (1951) [Re-UP]

We’re used to ‘50s dramas being trite, hammed up affairs, drenched in cheesy sentiment and rounded off with Sunday school platitudes. Don’t mistake Susana for its contemporaries; this is a sharp, witty film that knows exactly what it’s doing, and where it’s putting its hands.
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