A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Direction
Buñuel weaponizes politeness into psychological torture.
Acting
Ernesto Alonso's simmering restraint makes failure operatic.
Writing
The music box as Chekhov's gun—absurd and inevitable.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Ernesto Alonso
Archibaldo de la Cruz
Miroslava
Lavinia
Rita Macedo
Patricia Terrazas
Andrea Palma
Mrs. Cervantes
Rodolfo Landa
Alejandro Rivas
Ariadna Welter
Carlota Cervantes
José María Linares Rivas
Willy Corduran
Leonor Llausás
The Governess
Carlos Riquelme
The Commissioner
Carlos Martínez Baena
Priest
Manuel Dondé
Colonel at wedding
Armando Acosta
Man at Gordo's (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Buñuel made this during his Mexican 'commercial' period, smuggling surrealism into melodramas audiences actually paid to see.
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