Susana (1952) by Luis Buñuel
Sunday, May 28, 1989, 7:30 pm
BUÑUEL IN MEXICO
SUSANA (1952) AND WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1956)
Tonight we present two rarely seen features Luis Buñuel produced in Mexico between 1947 and 1965. Susana is an absurd story about an unrepentant seductress who escapes from a reformatory. “Finding himself saddled with a frightful melodrama replete with every known cliche, Buñuel attempted to demolish the idiocy by exaggeration…” (Ado Kyrou) Wuthering Heights was Buñuel’s lurid and hysterical answer to Wyler’s 1939 Hollywood behemoth. “All the surrealists were great fans of Miss Emily Bronte’s… l wanted to do it back in 1930 with lots of Wagner on the soundtrack. When I finally shot it in Mexico, it was as a sentimental homage to my own youth.” (L.B.)