Luis Bunuel - El rio y la muerte AKA The River and Death (1955)

Luis Bunuel - El rio y la muerte AKA The River and Death (1955) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047435 Spanish with custom English subs (Many thanks Supersoft and MysteroBuffo ) *The theme is the absurdity of Latin machismo and tribalism: Luis Buñuel tilts down from the remains of white colonial architecture to the dirt street, where a three-way shootout casually takes place. A jibe about someone's wife precipitates a blood feud between two families, to be carried cyclically in a town where every man carries a gun. (The jovial Comic Relief Guy removes his coat to reveal a pistol on his belt, which his mom insists he carry along with an amulet of the Virgin Mary.) The river is deep and murky, people cross it either on the lam from the authorities or inside a coffin carried by a black canoe, the hero (Miguel Torruco) experiences it both ways; vendettas proliferate in the land, a "litany of hate" reviled by the benevolent patriarch (José Elías Moreno) but shrugged by a colleague as "cosas de hombre." As soon as Moreno's heart expires, the frail amnesty between Torruco and his nemesis (Victor Alcocer) is tested yet ruptures under the weight of familial expectations. The whole thing is recounted by Torruco's son (Joaquín Cordero), a medical student with no stomach for brutality even when Alcocer's son (Jaime Fernández) drops by to demand a showdown. Buñuel presents "honor," a word much abused by the characters, as a specious conceit that leads to the ludicrous rather than to the sublime when pursued -- Cordero with only his noggin sticking out of the iron-lung is smacked by Fernández, he later returns the favor by flicking blood from his wounded hand onto the revenge-fixated man's startled face. The struggle between civilization and savagery here is too schematic and easily resolvable (the finale is a joke tossed off like Bergman's in The Virgin Spring), but Buñuel sorts through it briskly and sharply en route to Ensayo de un Crimen, that great horror-comedy also dealing with our "strange customs." With Columba Domínguez, Humberto Almazán, Silvia Derbez, and Carlos Martínez Baena. http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4402/elroylamuerte.jpg http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1588/elrioylamuerte1.png http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/7553/elrioylamuerte2.png http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/507/elrioylamuerte3.png http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/6798/elrioylamuerte5.png ---not my rip--- File Details ripped by VERTIGEN ========== Name........: El rio y la muerte.avi Filesize......: 1.09 GB Runtime.......: 01:31:00 Video Codec... xvid/ XviD 1.1.0 Beta 2 Video Bitrate: 1458 kb/s XY................. 720x544 (1.324) (37:28) FPS................. 23.976 Audio Codecs..: 0x200 (DOLBY AC3) AC3 Audio Bitrate.. 256 kb/s tot, stereo (2/0) Frame Size....: 48000 Hz Language......: Spanish ******************************** Freakyflicks is a free and open community dedicated to preserving and sharing cinematic art in the digital era. Our goal is to disseminate such works of art to the widest audience possible through the channels provided by P2P technology. The Freakyflicks collection is limited to those films that have played an exceptional role in the history of cinema and its progression in becoming a great art. Films that are usually described as classic, cult, arthouse and avant-garde. If you have films that fit this description feel free to share them and participate in our community. All you need do is include this tag in your upload and join us at the forum to announce your release. http://freakyflicks.proboards54.com 'If we all seed just 1:1, give at least what we take, this torrent will NEVER DIE

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Bosch1 (2009-07-30)

Awesome! Good work.

miragman (2009-08-15)

thanks lord_terabyte!

MtnWalker (2010-03-28)

Thank you!!!! This is very hard to find with english subs.