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A Woman Without Love (Ws Sub B&W)

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The film is good as a story or drama and as a technical release but
there is a mistake in the names list of the artists.
On this film there is no participation of Pedro Armendariz, Columba Dominguez and Dolores del Río. They made "La Malquerida".
The true artists were Tito Junco and Rosario Granados. Director: L. Buñuel

Luis Buñuel thought that "Woman Without Love" was the worst movie he ever made and he wrote about it in his autobiography, "I'd been told to set up a screen on the set and just copy André Cayatte's movie (1943 film version of Guy de Maupassant's Pierre et Jean) scene by scene. Not surprisingly, I made it my own way, but it was still a disaster". I don't agree with him. I believe that he never made a bad film - he simply could not. Even if it lacks in his trademark surrealism, it still has his intelligence, his craft, and the ability to make a rather forgettable melodrama interesting and insightful. I am sure many directors would be proud of Woman Without Love. With changing the title of the movie and Maupassant's novella from Pierre et Jean to Woman Without Love, Buñuel, focuses on one of his favorite subjects - couple in love longing for each other and their inability to fulfill their desire due to all types of obstacles, social and religious. is evidently present in the film and elevates it above countless soap-operas. The film is above countless soap-operas. It is beautiful; it moves well, it is based on the writings by a talented writer. I like the acting, and the finale was not disappointing. "A woman without Love" may not be the best Luis Buñuel's film but as his devoted fan, I could not skip it and I am glad that I saw it.

P.S. The quality of DVD leaves a lot to desire.

Senor Luis was truly one of the world's greatest directors and, once
again he proved his genius in this greatly moving drama (based on a
Maupassant story); and with the help of his very competent, talented
actors, Bunuel had created another masterpiece. Recommended!

Woman Without Love (Ws Sub B&W)As a couple of the movies of Bunuel from Mexico have got a bad treatment referring to the transfer to DVD+, I would like to know about the picture quality of the Cinemateca's DVD version of A Woman Without Love. Of course this is also very important to know because of the upcoming Cinemateca-DVDs of Bunuels The Brute and Susana.

+ VCI Entertainments 50th Anniversary Edition of Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was a great disappointment to me, because of the poor picture quality (I have seen a much better version of this movie on televison (on ARTE Canal in Germany/France) and also WCL/Yume Pictures' transfer to DVD of Ascent to Heaven was a great disappointment also referring to the poor picture quality (this movie I have also seen in a much better version on the televisoon canal ARTE)