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Tristan

feature film, Spain, Italy, France, 1970

DIRECTED BY: Luis Buñuel

ROLE:

Catherine Deneuve (Tristana) Fernando Rey (Don Lope) Franco Nero (Horacio) Lola Gaos (Saturn) Antonio Casas (Don Cosme)

SCRIPT: Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel (based on a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós)

PHOTOGRAPHY: José F. Aguayo

EDITING: Pedro del Rey

CONTENT:

Toledo 1923 Young, 19-year-old Tristana, left without a mother, becomes a protégé of the eminent, much older Don Lope Garrid. Don Lope, an anti-clerical prone to socialist ideas and a liberal conception of sexuality, seduces a young and innocent girl and she becomes his mistress, and their relationship combines marital and parent-daughter elements. In words, the old dignitary respects Tristana's right to independence, but in practice restricts it, wanting her to leave the house as little as possible and be as dedicated to him as possible. When a girl falls in love with a young painter Horace, don Lope does everything to make that relationship impossible…

Tristana is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Buñuel's favorite writer Benito Péres Galdós from 1892, but, interestingly, it was this novel that the director considered the writer's weakest achievement, kitschy and predictable; yet for years he tried to screen it with the intention of ‘improving’ it. He eventually succeeded in his native Spain, despite having scandalized Franco and his right-wing regime a decade earlier and the entire Catholic Church with Viridiana, a film that bears significant motifs with Tristan (the young girl becomes the prey of an older dignitary which eventually leads to her own mental and moral decline). Buñuel shifted the plot of the novel from the end of the 19th century to the 1920s and 1930s, when he was young, and the scene from Madrid to Toledo, where he once lived. As the film was co-produced with French and Italian partners, they imposed ‘their’ stars Catherine Deneuve and Franco Nero on the Spanish author for the roles of Tristana and Horace, while don Lopea played Buñuel’s favorite Fernando Rey. Surprisingly, after a bad experience on Beauty of the Day, this time the collaboration between Buñuel and Deneuve went great, and she later highlighted Tristan as one of her favorite films; also, the director was ultimately pleased with Nero's performance. The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition and was nominated for an Oscar for best film outside the English-speaking world, but critics did not like it at first. Over the years, however, his status improved and finally in 1996, on the occasion of the centenary of Spanish cinema, he was chosen by filmmakers and critics for the best Spanish film of all time.

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Portraits: Surrealist film by Luis Buñuel

As part of a major retrospective of Spanish director Luis Buñuel, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, by September 30, we will show 20 titles made in the period 1929-1977. Buñuel is an author of superb, original and recognizable opus and style, a director who perfectly surrealist symbolism fits into the overall structure of the work and permeates it with a plot, and a strong critic of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy, especially the meaninglessness and futility of religious dogmas and human constraints.

The program was realized in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain in Zagreb and Cineteca Nacional México.

All films have Croatian subtitles.

Ticket price 20 kuna, for members 10 kuna.

Tickets can be purchased at the box office which opens one hour before the first screening of the day and closes after the start of the last screening of the day.

Ticket reservations are possible on weekdays (at least the day before the screening you want to book), by calling the box office or sending an email to: info@kinotuskanac.hr

Reserved tickets should be purchased no later than the day before the screening. Reservations that are not picked up the day before expire and the tickets are returned for sale.

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