Death in the Garden


La mort en ce jardin is a 1956 film by director Luis Buñuel based on the novel by José-André Lacour.

Synopsis

Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of fugitives—a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner, and the miner's deaf-mute daughter —are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted, and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another. Shot in vibrant Eastmancolor and featuring a star-studded cast, Death in the Garden is an adventure film with Surrealist gestures and symbolism. Additional dialogue was written by Raymond Queneau.
Filmed during the period when Buñuel was rising as a promising figure of surrealist cinema, Death in the Garden proposes a sort of psychological mirror-image of Franco's Spain from which Buñuel exiled himself, with rebellions and oppressors galore.

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