{"product_id":"el-blu-ray-1289","title":"Él (Blu-Ray, #1289)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses into an adaptation of Mercedes Pinto’s autobiographical novel, Buñuel crafts an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young woman (Delia Garcés) discovers that the outward sophistication of her new husband (Arturo de Córdova) masks disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A characteristically raw indictment of religious and social hypocrisy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉl\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003estands as the director’s greatest excursion into melodrama, a vivid portrayal of society’s inability to restrain the irrational urges of the human id. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-feature-title-field=\"\" class=\"header_lvl2 hideSmall\"\u003eBLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-special-features-field=\"\" class=\"product-features-list\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew 4K digital restoration, supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, director of photography Gabriel Figueroa’s son, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew video essay on director Luis Buñuel by scholar Jordi Xifra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterview with Buñuel from 1981 by writer Jean-Claude Carrière, a\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003elongtime collaborator of the director’s\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003ePanel discussion from 2009, moderated by filmmaker José Luis Garci\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eTrailer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eNew English subtitle translation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003ePLUS: An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano and an interview with Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew cover by Eric Skillman and Polly Dedman\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Criterion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44981433270316,"sku":"715515324618","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0359\/2201\/8348\/files\/el-blu-ray-1289-new-blu-ray-715515324618-9603138.jpg?v=1772344568","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitdvd.com\/products\/el-blu-ray-1289","provider":"Orbit DVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}