Tristana

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Catherine Deneuve, Franco Nero, and Fernando Rey in Tristana (1970)

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Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 11 wins & 4 nominations total

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Trivia
Luis Buñuel said that many of Tristana's idiosyncrasies, including her habit of asking people to choose between nearly identical objects, was based on the director's sister's similar habits.

Quotes
Don Lope: Poor workers. Cheated and then beaten. Work is a curse, Saturno. Down with work that you have to do to survive. That work isn't honorable, as some say. All it does is fatten the exploiting swine. However, what you do for pleasure ennobles man. If only we could all work like that. Look at me, I'd rather be hanged than work! So, I live poorly, but I live without working.

Alternate versions
Originally released in Europe at 105 minutes.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Multiplicity/The Frighteners/Kazaam/Fled/Celestial Clockwork (1996)

Soundtracks
Étude No 12 in C minor, Op 10 'Revolutionary'
Written by Frédéric Chopin

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Featured review

8/10

Buñuel, the genius...

One of the latest works from the genius of Calanda, he was still stigmatized by Franco's dictatorship and he adapted a text by Benito Pérez Galdós about a young pretty girl (Catherine Deneuve) whose mother dies and has to go to live (and something else) with his stepfather (Fernando Rey).

"Tristana" contains many of the common factors of Buñuel's movies: his total contempt for the ruling sectors of society and the rich people, for hypocrisy and Puritanism; his irreverence, and a wicked and implicit sexual content. Only the man who made "Belle de Jour" would dare to amputate a leg to the goddess Deneuve (one of the most beautiful creatures that ever walked the earth). Fernando Rey plays a typical Spanish "hidalgo" that's come down in the world and that sexually harass his stepdaughter.

So, Buñuel not only hadn't lost his touch with the years, on the contrary, he felt more and more free as the time went by to let his genius flow *My rate: 8/10