Abismos de Pasión in Toronto (and in 35 mm)

A rare chance to watch Luis Buñuel's 1954 masterful Wuthering Heights adaptation:

Wuthering Heights (Abismos de pasión)

by Luis Buñuel

Mexico | 1954 | 91m | Spanish

TIFF Lightbox (Luis Buñuel: Desire and Deviance)

Cinema 4 - Paul & Leah Atkinson Family Cinema

February 12, 7:00 PM

Adapted from the same source material, and screening before the release of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, join us on February 12 for a rare presentation of Luis Buñuel’s fevered adaptation.

35mm print!

Among the myriad literary film adaptations of Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece Wuthering Heights — from William Wyler’s acclaimed 1939 version to Emerald Fennell’s anticipated 2026 update — Luis Buñuel’s own interpretation has been heralded as among the most faithful. Shifting the period and setting from the 19th-century wild and remote Yorkshire moors to mid-century rural Mexico, Buñuel’s tempestuous and ill-fated lovers Cathy and Heathcliff are reborn as Alejandro and Catalina. After years of absence, a now wealthy Alejandro (Jorge Mistral) returns home, where Catalina (Irasema Dilián) is newly pregnant with her first child and unable to leave her marriage of convenience, which the contemptuous and possessive Alejandro proves unwilling to accept. Often overshadowed by the singular achievements of Los Olvidados (1950) and Él (1953), Wuthering Heights loses none of the twisted force of its source material while being exemplary of the Spanish auteur’s fertile Mexican period in this classic tale of amour fou. (Amanda Brason)