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A Woman Without Love

1952 · 85 min

A somber, slow-burning melodrama of buried secrets and moral reckoning, told with Buñuel's critical eye for bourgeois hypocrisy.

Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Rosario Granados, Tito Junco, Julio Villarreal

Overview: After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

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Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Rosario Granados, Tito Junco, Julio Villarreal

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
betrayal
love
guilt
class
Places: big city
countryside
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, romance
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Written by: Luis Buñuel, Rodolfo Usigli
Starring: Rosario Granados, Tito Junco, Julio Villarreal, Joaquín Cordero, Xavier Loyá, Elda Peralta, Jaime Calpe, Eva Calvo
Music: Raúl Lavista
Cinematography: Raúl Martínez Solares
Runtime: 85 min
Country: Mexico
Languages: Spanish

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