Susana

Director: Luis Buñuel
Genre: Art film, World cinema, Drama
Year: 1951
Country: Mexico
Language: Spanish Language
Starring: Fernando Soler, Enrique del Castillo, Matilde Palou, Rosita Quintana, Rafael Icardo, María Gentil Arcos, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, Luis López Somoza

Susana (Susana, demonio y carne or The Devil and the Flesh) is a 1951 film directed by Luis Buñuel. It is the story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.

Susana grollo fernandez is full of the unique touches of Buñuel's surrealism. The heroine, Susana (Rosita Quintana), is a beautiful inmate at a women's reformatory who escapes in the middle of a rainy night. When first seen, Susana's being thrown into a solitary cell for misbehaving and the correction officer says Imagine, she's been here two years and is worse than ever!.

In her cell she asks God's help, facing a shadow of the cross formed by the window bars from where a spider crawls away. The window breaks open and she escapes. She ends up at a ranch. Soon the whole household is involved in possessing her and fighting over her. Jesus, the young ranch helper; Alberto, the family's son and heir; and Guadalupe, Alberto's father, 'a God-fearing man and the faithful husband of the beautiful, patient Dona Carmen'.

Though the movie means to be steamy, Buñuel is apparently more amused than shocked by

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