Ensayo de un crimen 1955

Critics score:
100 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Though it's 22 years late in arriving, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz is the only new movie in town about which I can say that it mustn't be missed. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Bunuel is still able to put some bizarre -- and very funny -- personal touches on this story of a man obsessed with the idea that the music box he owned as a child has the power to kill. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: Against a background of revolution and restoration, Catholic mysteries and aristocratic manners, Bunuel unfolds, in images akin to Freudian X-rays ... Read more

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