AUTEURS, MEXICAN FILM NOIR

CRIMINAL LIFE OF ARCHIBALDO DE LA CRUZ, THE (15)

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Director: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava Stern, Rita Macedo, Ariadna Welter
Mexico, 1955, 1 hour 31 minutes, Spanish + English subtitles

Wealthy Mexican, Archibaldo de la Cruz (Ernesto Alonso) is a would-be serial killer. With a strange and powerful obsession stemming from his childhood during the Mexican Revolution, the affluent bachelor and suave ceramist Archibaldo oscillates effortlessly between fantasy and reality, obsessed in making the perfect crime. But will he succeed? Written and directed by Luis Buñuel who interlaces this noir with his own sense of humour, this is a storya both vicious and hilarious, about the impossibility of fulfilling one's fantasies and desires, which, in this case, are all about murder.

“Though it's 22 years late in arriving, [The Criminal Life…] is the only new movie in town about which I can say that it mustn't be missed.” Vincent Canby, New York Times (1977)
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Additional Information

 We apologise for the technical issues with this film at the screening at Malvern Theatres on Sunday 3. We have now received a new screening copy for the screening at The Courtyard Hereford on Sunday 17. 

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