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A femme fatale crashes a pious household and everyone's virtue goes up in flames.
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IMDb
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Audience Score
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Susana (1951)

Mexican noir fever dreamrepressed desire chaosBuñuel being Buñuel

Overview

Drama

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.

Flag of MXMXSpanish
Content warning
based on novel or bookreligionjealousyescaped convicttemptationhypocrisyyoung womanfarmhandsexual attraction

Standout Aspects

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.

Best for:Solo: Late-night viewing when you want to feel morally compromised.·Rewatch: Spot which man cracks first on second viewing.
Heads up:Sexual Content: 1951-coded desire that somehow feels more explicit than modern films.
Luis Buñuel

Director

Luis Buñuel

ReleasedApr 11, 1951
Runtime1h 26m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacesteady
Intensitymedium
Tonedark
Feelmedium
Internacional Cinematográfica

Top Cast

Fernando Soler

Fernando Soler

Don Guadalupe

Rosita Quintana

Rosita Quintana

Susana

Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Víctor Manuel Mendoza

Jesus

Matilde Palou

Matilde Palou

Dona Carmen

María Gentil Arcos

María Gentil Arcos

Felisa

Rafael Icardo

Rafael Icardo

Don Severiano, veterinary

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

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.

Insight

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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