EL (DVD)

Spanish surrealist master Luis Buuels 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 Pintos autobiographical novel, Buuel crafts an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young woman (Delia Garcs) discovers that the outward sophistication of her new husband (Arturo de Crdova) masks disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A characteristically raw indictment of religious and social hypocrisy, l stands as the directors greatest excursion into melodrama, a vivid portrayal of societys inability to restrain the irrational urges of the human id. DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 4K digital restoration, supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, director of photography Gabriel Figueroas son New video essay on director Luis Buuel by scholar Jordi Xifra Appreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro Interview with Buuel from 1981 by wri