Una Mujer Sin Amor
Luis Buñuel
After carrying out a theft Carlito is punished by his father Carlos. However he manages to escape from his room in which he is cloistered. On the run he is taken in by Julio, an engineer who takes him back to the family home. Carlos's wife Rosario comes from a poor background and married despite herself soon becomes enamoured with Julio...
With : Rosario Granados, Julio Villareal, Tito Junco, Jaime Calpe, Joaquín Cordero, Xavier Loya, Elda Peralta
Screenplay : Jaime Salvador, Rodolfo Usigli, d'après le roman Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant
Image : Raúl Martínez Solares
Sound : Rodolfo Benitez, Antonio Bustos
Music : Raúl Lavista
Editing : José Bustos
Screenplay : Jaime Salvador, Rodolfo Usigli, d'après le roman Pierre et Jean de Guy de Maupassant
Image : Raúl Martínez Solares
Sound : Rodolfo Benitez, Antonio Bustos
Music : Raúl Lavista
Editing : José Bustos
Production : Internacional Cinematográfica, Sergio Kogan
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Distribution: Les Films Sans Frontières
Filmed in barely 20 days, Una mujer sin amor (A Woman Without) was made with a very small budget. The film was commissioned and Buñuel was instructed to get inspiration from André Cayatte's adaptation (Pierre et Jean, 1943). The challenge was extremely difficult for Buñuel: "We followed Cayette's film virtually shot by shot, which was the minimum guide to work in the studio. We had to shoot very fast, so I avoided cuts as much as possible, which made editing much easier" (Luis Buñuel). The result comes from the application of two contradictory methods: Buñuel went along with the rule of imitation, while at the same time condemning the approach by choosing to film in his own way. For both the director and the critics the film was mediocre, luke warm, no doubt because his artistic personality was constrained by the need to copy someone else's film.