Wonderful character development!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The acting in this movie is really good.

Except for an early flirtation with surrealism, most of Bunuel's movies deal with the loss of innocence and a subsequent outrageous cynicism. This one isn't much different. The innocent Deneuve is entrusted to her guardian, Fernando Rey, an honorable man whose weakness is women. Understandably, he can't keep his gnarled and lecherous old hands off his stunningly beautiful ward. And Deneuve does what she's told, like a compliant pet.Not that Rey is a monster. He's stern, but he has friends he jokes with in the café, he dresses impeccably when he leaves home, and is thoroughly dignified. He hates having the flu because it renders him more human in appearance.Deneuve meets the handsome young artist Franco Nero. These women are always meeting handsome and dashing younger men! But this one isn't the usual rogue because this is not Madame Bovary. Nero whisks her away, unmarried, and later returns to Rey's city, after Deneuve has developed cancer and lost a leg. The aging Rey now wants to marry his ex ward, but she's become a tough nut to crack.Deneuve isn't as glamorous here as she is in some other feature, as in Roman Polanski's "Repulsion", for instance, where her features were framed by a mane of lustrous blond hair. Her hair is dark here, and tied back severely, giving her face a dished appearance. But she's as "mysterious" as ever.It's always hard to tell exactly what she's thinking. Partly, this is because she's not a very expressive actress, and partly because her eyes are usually set at "wide open." I have a feeling that if an ophthalmologist could creep up to her, nose to nose, which is a pleasant enough thought, and peer through her pupil, once he got past all the defensive red reflexes he'd see a slot machine with four windows, always spinning, never stopping, the oranges, apples, cherries, and lemons whirling past.As the passionate and determined boy friend, Franco Nero doesn't do much. But Fernando Rey, while hardly seeming to try, gives us a fully fleshed-out portrait of a man who is filled with old-fashioned courtliness (except for that thing about women) but suffers because he's losing his youth. For a long while, we watch him lovingly treating his graying beard before the mirror.But it's a rather slow movie, despite the universal theme and the effective compositions. It could have used a bit of gratuitous nudity. After all, Deneuve has nothing to hide, as she demonstrated in Bunuel's fascinating "Belle de Jour" a few years earlier. Okay, give us the iconoclasm but can't they hand it out naked?

Very good performances and somehow quite entrancing, i still cant fathom out what on earth this film is about. I think I've seen 5 or 6 films by bunuel and the same goes for all of them....surreal, puzzling...but fascinating. Very good performances and somehow quite entrancing, i still cant fathom out what on earth this film is about. I think I've seen 5 or 6 films by bunuel and the same goes for all of them....surreal, puzzling...but fascinating. Very good performances and somehow quite entrancing, i still cant fathom out what on earth this film is about. I think I've seen 5 or 6 films by bunuel and the same goes for all of them....surreal, puzzling...but fascinating.

Sometimes hilarious, often dream like surreal drama tells about a young woman, heavenly beautiful and innocent in the beginning, bitter and pitiless but still heavenly beautiful sans one leg in the end. Catherine Deneuve gave perhaps her best performance as an orphaned 19 years old girl who after her mother's death has been adapted by the aristocratic free-thinking atheist, Don Lope Garrido in absolutely fantastic performance by Bunuel's favorite leading man in the latter half of the director's career, Fernando Rey (That Obscure Object of Desire, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Tristana, Viridiana). Don Lope is a man of honor, a gentleman who believes in those of ten commandments that don't have to do with sex. He also takes pride in having not worked a day in his life because the only work is noble that is done "with pleasure". He rather would sell for a fraction of their real cost the pieces of art that had belonged to his family for generations. This is the man Tristana comes to live with. Very soon he would seduce her and make her his mistress justifying it with the words that she is better off this way than being on the streets. Don Lope is a preacher of freedom in the relationships between a man and a woman and for him, "marital bliss has sickly odor". Young Tristana is a good student and eventually she chooses to leave Don Lope and to run off with a young and attractive artist (Franco Nero). From this point on, the movie takes an unexpected and unusual turn..."Tristana", based on a famous romance novel written by Benito Perez Galdos was adapted by Bunuel into simple on the surface but incredibly rich, complex, funny, in one word, brilliant dissection of moral degradation as only Bunuel could make it. The film is also a portrayal of a strong and beautiful woman who wishes to survive and be independent even if it goes against the established rules of behavior of her time.P.S. I wonder if Rainer Werner Fassbinder had seen "Tristana" and if he had, would it give him any ideas about his own trilogy of strong, beautiful, independent, and corrupted women trying to survive in the post-war Germany?

One of the latest works from the genius of Calanda, he was still stigmatized by Franco's dictatorship and he adapted a text by Benito Pérez Galdós about a young pretty girl (Catherine Deneuve) whose mother dies and has to go to live (and something else) with his stepfather (Fernando Rey)."Tristana" contains many of the common factors of Buñuel's movies: his total contempt for the ruling sectors of society and the rich people, for hypocrisy and Puritanism; his irreverence, and a wicked and implicit sexual content. Only the man who made "Belle de Jour" would dare to amputate a leg to the goddess Deneuve (one of the most beautiful creatures that ever walked the earth). Fernando Rey plays a typical Spanish "hidalgo" that's come down in the world and that sexually harass his stepdaughter.So, Buñuel not only hadn't lost his touch with the years, on the contrary, he felt more and more free as the time went by to let his genius flow… *My rate: 8/10