Rehearsal for a Crime
Q UERÍA write a review of the novel test of a crime Mexican playwright Rodolfo Usigli when - to begin to document for this - di with tape homonymous English filmmaker Luis Buñuel ... And nothing, I finally decided to save my review on my blog and show the aforementioned film. (As a final note, the novel is a thousand times better, but the film is priceless.)
S INOPSIS :
's death several women close to him makes Archibald de la Cruz believes is a murderer. His only argument is that he wanted all those deaths. In an interview before a judge, Archibald reveals his life and the reasons why he thinks should be tried .
C COMMENTS:
Initially, the adaptation of the novel by Mexican author Rodolfo Usigli meant a headache for Luis Buñuel. "Usigli not allow the slightest change in its text. When he saw the finished film complained at a meeting of the union [of writers]. But he was acquitted because the credits I had put 'Inspired by ...' In other words, not claiming to have made an accurate transcription of the book, but a different work [...] my way. "
obviously a crime test ended up being one of the most personal films of Luis Buñuel and one of the funniest and most disturbing of his films. The history of the imaginary crime of Archibald de la Cruz is at the same time, a catalog of comic frustration and disturbing portrait of an unbalanced personality.
Like other characters from Buñuel, Archibald imagine forbidden things about living in reality. Much of his life is pure imagination, because only in this inner world can be truly free.
For many filmmakers, a crime test has a very special charm that motivates them to pay their respects. Pedro Almodóvar uses images from this film in a key scene in Flesh (1997) to establish a parallel between Archibald - the criminal frustrated - and Victor - the frustrated love. Both characters are conditioned by childhood memories and behaviors manifested extreme emotional immaturity.
The relationship between eroticism and death is one of the central themes of a crime test. Archibald's obsession for the murder is linked to a childhood memory in which he sees her governess falls dead, with bloody thighs. This image - one of the most provocative film - accompany the character for the rest of his life, condemning the women around him to be "victims" of his unbridled imagination.
Speaking of eroticism and death, the celebrity of a crime test is strongly linked to the funeral mythology developed around the suicide of actress Miroslava Stern, occurred a few days after filming ended. In a posthumous letter, the star asked that his body was cremated. When the film was released, the public did not fail to note the similarity between the scene of the cremation of the dummy and the tragic ending of this beautiful actress. Interestingly, the similarities are so close to the personality Buñuel had taken a macabre twist and still continues to captivate fans of this film .
