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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Buñuel’s similarly elegant, deadpan surrealism turns bourgeois rituals into an endlessly derailed dream-logic comedy, with abrupt shifts that retain the dry, anarchic poise of The Phantom of Liberty.
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Why this pick
A wandering, episodic pilgrimage through theological argument and historical absurdity, delivered with the same irreverence, discontinuous structure, and calmly outrageous humor.
03
Why this pick
Its polished social setting becomes a bizarre trap governed by unexplained rules, making class manners and rational behavior collapse in Buñuel’s characteristically unblinking comic style.
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Why this pick
Two women drift into a repeating melodramatic fantasy, approached with playful patience and a delight in narrative rules being made, broken, and quietly mocked.
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Why this pick
A pristine, politely nightmarish society runs on opaque conventions and emotional emptiness, extending Buñuel’s satirical fascination with civilized behavior rendered bizarre.
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01 / THE STORY
The opening scene is inspired by "The Kiss", a short story by Spanish Spanish Romance literature writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and by Francisco Goya's painting ''The Third of May 1808''. Toledo, 1808. The city has been occupied by French Napoleonic troops. A firing squad executes a small group of Spanish rebels who cry out "Long live chains!" or "Death to the ''gabachos''!" -a Spanish pejorative term for "Frenchmen"-. The troops are encamped in a Catholic church which they desecrate by drinking, singing, and eating the communion wafers. The captain caresses a statue of Doña Elvira de Castañeda and is knocked unconscious by the statue of her husband, Don Pedro López de Ayala. In revenge, the captain exhumes Doña Elvira's body to find her face has not decomposed; there is a suggestion of intended necrophilia.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
la dame en noir, la soeur du premier préfet
l'infirmière
Mme Foucault
le professeur
Mme Calmette
le lieutenant des dragons
