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Acting
Pedro Armendáriz physically embodies brute force cracking open to tenderness
Direction
Buñuel's documentary realism makes the melodrama hit like a gut punch
Cinematography
Shadows and slaughterhouse grime that reek of poverty and desire

Director
Luis Buñuel
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