Friday | August 3, 2012 7:00 pm

Wuthering Heights
(Abismos de pasión)

Directed by Luis Buñuel.
With Irasema Dilián, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado.
1954, 35mm, black & white, 90 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.

A cherished project of Buñuel’s since the early 1930s when he collaborated on an adaptation of Brontë’s classic with his Land Without Bread co-writer and Surrealist author Pierre Unik, Wuthering Heights is a wonderfully faithful adaptation true to the soaring spirit of amour fou that propels the novel recklessly forward. Working with a cast of popular matinee stars and changing the setting to late 19th century rural Mexico, Buñuel's vision of Brontë is charged with a sexual energy notably absent from William Wyler's 1939 adaptation.