Absolutely the worst movie.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Very good performances and somehow quite entrancing, i still cant fathom out what on earth this film is about. I think I've seen 5 or 6 films by bunuel and the same goes for all of them....surreal, puzzling...but fascinating. Very good performances and somehow quite entrancing, i still cant fathom out what on earth this film is about. I think I've seen 5 or 6 films by bunuel and the same goes for all of them....surreal, puzzling...but fascinating. Very good performances and somehow quite entrancing, i still cant fathom out what on earth this film is about. I think I've seen 5 or 6 films by bunuel and the same goes for all of them....surreal, puzzling...but fascinating.

It's the 1st one I watch for the director.. have chosen it among plenty of other great films for Bergman, Scola, Antonioni and others during Damascus festival so I would say it was disappointing… why? The montage was disastrous; I felt several times during the movie that I was moved harshly by the director from one scenes to another without the slightest care concerning the overall smoothness of the film. The examples are so many, I even cannot recall one.Another thing was the unnecessary scenes and insignificant dialogs which was quite a lot, an example was the dialog took place between the doctor/priest and Deneuve Additionally, there were bad crafted scenes like the last confrontation between Deneuve (playing piano) and her young lover, OR the first confrontation (somehow fight) took place between the two men competing on Deneuve (the slapping thing) and finally the contribution of old man death by Deneuve. Maybe such scenes might be appealing or even touching for lots of people but for me personally they're funny.Many other notes may be added briefly, like long intro without applying the needed depth of characters (the film not the novel) for us audience to get in the mood of the film and create the required solid background about their psychological, mental and social status.But we cannot though overlook the good performance of most actors and the humanistic spirit of the film with all its relevant sub themes like hypocrisy (maybe self deception), love's nature and relativity of honor. But I insist that the approach was primitive.To conclude, the feeling of detachment accompanied me throughout the film, but the way I see it is that film makers will always find it a difficult job to transform novels (with all it's descriptive, sophisticated and elaborative nature) to 2 hours film. Examples are quite a lot

One of the latest works from the genius of Calanda, he was still stigmatized by Franco's dictatorship and he adapted a text by Benito Pérez Galdós about a young pretty girl (Catherine Deneuve) whose mother dies and has to go to live (and something else) with his stepfather (Fernando Rey)."Tristana" contains many of the common factors of Buñuel's movies: his total contempt for the ruling sectors of society and the rich people, for hypocrisy and Puritanism; his irreverence, and a wicked and implicit sexual content. Only the man who made "Belle de Jour" would dare to amputate a leg to the goddess Deneuve (one of the most beautiful creatures that ever walked the earth). Fernando Rey plays a typical Spanish "hidalgo" that's come down in the world and that sexually harass his stepdaughter.So, Buñuel not only hadn't lost his touch with the years, on the contrary, he felt more and more free as the time went by to let his genius flow… *My rate: 8/10

This is not an easy film to watch and so I cannot recommend it to everyone. I involves the sick relationship between a young lady who is entrusted to the care of her guardian after the death of her parents. At first, this older man appears to be very strict and concerned about her virtue by keeping her away from young suiters. However, ultimately this supposed benevolence is exposed for hypocrisy when the old man begins making sexual overtures to his young ward. Ultimately, he rapes her (though he justified this to himself and clearly acted as if it was not rape) and ruins her life. However, over time, she becomes more bitter and cold--and this transition becomes so apparent and ironic at the film's conclusion.Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey are both superb in the movie, as is the pacing, direction and cinematography. Depressing but exceptionally well-made.