Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Direction
Buñuel's surgical precision—every frame drips with psychological rot.
Acting
de Córdova's unraveling is genuinely unsettling, no melodrama.
Cinematography
Cloistered spaces that feel like a trap closing slowly.
Director
Luis Buñuel
Arturo de Córdova
Francisco Galván de Montemayor
Delia Garcés
Gloria Milalta
Aurora Walker
Esperanza Peralta
Carlos Martínez Baena
Padre Velasco
Manuel Dondé
Pablo
Rafael Banquells
Ricardo Luján
Fernando Casanova
Beltrán
José Pidal
Padre prior
Roberto Meyer
Licenciado
Luis Beristáin
Raúl Conde
León Barroso
Camarero (uncredited)
Antonio Bravo
Invitado a fiesta (uncredited)
María Gentil Arcos
Sirvienta en cena (uncredited)
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