Tristana (1970)
Directed by Luis Buñuel
As a young woman, Tristana is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope, a respected member of the community, who takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio, she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.
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As other commentators have noted, the filmmakers could well be paying homage to Luis Bun~uel, "Tristana" in particular, as this sequence unfolds with pitch-dark humor as two heretofore fortunate and privileged people have been protected from the shallowness of their feelings for each other.
Fans of Bunuel’s 1970 film, “Tristana,” will see Bunuel’s influence all over this story, but Inarritu nevertheless makes it his own as he eventually connects it to the film’s final act, “El Chivo and Maru.”
Almodóvar has tempered Jonquet's extremely cruel tale, shifted the relationships around and relocated the narrative to Toledo, the beautiful city south of Madrid where his idol, Luis Buñuel, set his 1970 masterpiece Tristana, a psychological drama of controlled savagery about the destructive affair between an elderly, liberal aristocrat (Fernando Rey) and his beautiful ward (Catherine Deneuve).