Susana [The Devil and the Flesh] **** (1951, Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza) – Classic Movie Review 9959

Director Luis Buñuel’s splendid 1951 film drama Susana [Susana, demonio y carne] [The Devil and the Flesh] was filmed fast in black and white in Mexico and is the story of Susana (Rosita Quintana), an unstable young woman who escapes from a reformatory and ends up at a plantation, where she disrupts a decent working family’s lives.

Susana is highly charged, has a lusty atmosphere and is full of Buñuel’s unique surrealist touches.

It is written by Luis Buñuel, Jaime Salvador and Rodolfo Usigli, based on the novel by Manuel Reachi.

Susana [Susana, demonio y carne] [The Devil and the Flesh] was shot at Estudios Churubusco Azteca, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

Also in the cast are Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, María Gentil Arcos, Luis López Somoza, Matilde Palou and Rafael Icardo.

It was released on DVD as a double feature in March 2011 with Luis Buñuel’s The Brute [El Bruto] (1953).

The films of Luis Buñuel: Un Chien Andalou (1929), L’Age d’Or (1930), Land Without Bread (1933), Gran Casino (1947), The Great Madcap (1949), Los Olvidados (1950), Susana (1951), Daughter of Deceit (1951), Mexican Bus Ride (1952), A Woman Without Love (1952), El Bruto (1953), Él (1953), Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1954), Wuthering Heights (1954), Robinson Crusoe (1954), The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955), The River and Death (1955), Cela s’appelle l’aurore (1956), Death in the Garden (1956), Nazarín (1959), La Fièvre Monte à El Pao (1959), The Young One (1960), Viridiana (1961), The Exterminating Angel (1962), Diary of a Chambermaid (1964), Simon of the Desert (1965), Belle de Jour (1967), The Milky Way (1969), Tristana (1970), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), The Phantom of Liberty (1974), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977).

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