The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.
Direction
Buñuel's early Mexican period—surrealist instincts in melodrama drag.
Acting
Rosita Quintana weaponizes vulnerability like you wouldn't believe.
Writing
Script dares you to root for the 'unstable' woman destroying everything.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Buñuel's Mexican exile period (1940s-1960s), when he churned out commercial films that secretly smuggled in his obsessions with desire and institutional failure.
The original title 'Susana, demonio y carne' literally translates to 'Susana, demon and flesh'—the English title blames her, but Buñuel's Spanish blames what she represents.
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