Latin-American Wuthering Heights

After a Filipino Wuthering Heights, a couple of Latin-American ones.

The British Film Institute (BFI) is devoting a two-month season to the Spanish director Luis Buñuel. The first month explores mainly his Mexican films. Today, January 14, it's the turn of Abismos de Pasión, his very personal take on Wuthering Heights.

Heeeeeathcliffe! - or rather, Alejaaaaaaaandro! Buñuel had wanted to bring 'Wuthering Heights', a Surrealist favourite, to the screen back in the 30s, and had even collaborated on a screenplay, but it wasn't until his Mexican producer Óscar Dançigers revived it that he finally rolled the cameras. Emily Brontë meets Surrealist mad love, with a healthy dash of Latin fervor - and some typically Buñuelian touches.

Mexico 1953 Dir Luis Buñuel
With Irasema Dilian, Jorge Mistral, Lilia Prado. 90 mins

Sun 14 Jan 6.20PM NFT2
Tue 23 Jan 8.45PM NFT1

More information on this film, on this old post of ours.

The other Latin-American Wuthering Heights comes from Cuba. We read in Cuba Literaria the results of the XIII Premio de Cuento de La Gaceta de Cuba (La Gaceta de Cuba's Short Stories Award). The writer Felix Sánchez was awarded with a second prize for his short story: "Otras cumbres borrascosas" (Other Wuthering Heights).

Categories: Movies-DVD-TV, Wuthering Heights