Luis Buñuel: Ensayo de un crimen (1955)

Cast: Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava Stern, Rita Macedo, Ariadna Welter, Rodolfo Landa
Archibaldo de la Cruz tells in the police station the story about the murder of a woman, which he insists to be the author. He's a talented potter, with refined manners but mentally unstable. One night, he says, he went to spent the night in a casino, where he met a beautiful woman. After having a fight with her lover, the woman crashes her car and De la Cruz offers to ride her home, place where he thinks he committed the murder. Archibaldo's engaged with a pretty and very catholic girl, but before that, he gets fascinated with a nice and beautiful woman, Lavinia. One afternoon, he invites her to his workshop, moment when she seizes the opportunity to make a joke to the nervous Archibaldo. Are these events the product of a compulsive and unstable mind, sexually frustrated?






PW: malamute