Wuthering Heights in Brisbane

In this case, Abismos de Pasión, the adaptation that Luis Buñuel made in México in 1953. The rendez-vous is at the Brisbane International Film Festival:

16th Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF)
6 July - 12 August 2007

Abismos de Pasión (Wuthering Heights) 1953
Luis Buñuel

Embrace the vibrant art of film and filmmaking at the 16th Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF).

Wuthering Heights seems at first to be firmly in Mexican cinema's ranchera genre, like a south-of-the border genre rebadge of Jezebel (1938) or Gone with the Wind (1939). That is, until its darkly, sadistically handsome hero Alejandro whispers 'Catalina'. Thus, literature's most familiar codeword for romantic yearning suddenly unlocks the film's artistic derivations and Buñuel's intent. Like Robinson Crusoe which Buñuel had previously brought to the screen in 1952, Emily Brontë's famously death- and sex-fused Gothic novel was a favourite of the Surrealist's artistic circle in the 1920s, and its adaptation, a long-held ambition of the director. Realised within the constraints of Mexican genre cinema, the film may not have been quite the Symbolist romance that Buñuel apparently intended, the director later stating his disappointment with the actors' distracting touches of Mexican cinema star-power. But in some ways, it is all the richer, and perhaps more fantastic, for having this Latinised, pop-novella undercurrent—all that tabloid desire, sadism, and machismo swelling below its historical costume-drama surfaces.
7th August 2007 15:50 PM
Palace Centro Cinemas - Palace Cinema 2

EDIT: The Courier-Mail also mentions this screening.

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