Tristana by Luis Bunuel was the 1971 Nominee for The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – they even have a challenge there, you could see how many of those you have seen…on my blog and YouTube channel you find notes on films from The NYT 1,000 list and reviews of books from the GOAT and other sites https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

Tristana by Luis Bunuel was the 1971 Nominee for The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – they even have a challenge there, you could see how many of those you have seen…on my blog and YouTube channel you find notes on films from The NYT 1,000 list and reviews of books from the GOAT and other sites https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

 

 

8 out of 10

 

Luis Bunuel was one of the greatest auteurs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/01/belle-de-jour-directed-by-luis-bunuel.html in cinematic history, he revolutionized what was called the seventh art (maybe the term is still used, but who knows, if it is seen as WOKE, maybe MAGA banned it) with surrealistic features

 

Tristana is the heroine of the motion picture, the majestic Catherine Deneuve, one of the best thespians ever, has the leading role, she has also worked with Luis Bunuel on another great movie, Belle de Jour, the link to my note on this is above…Tristana is a young woman, recently orphaned, when Don Lope aka Fernando Rey enters the stage

Fernando Rey was also one of the glorious actors, perhaps best known for his role as the villain in The French Connection https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-french-connection-based-on-book-by.html I can see him now as he nefariously waves goodbye to Papa Doyle, Gene Hackman took the Oscar for this

 

Don Lope is what we call today a grooming man, maybe even a child abuser, albeit I am not sure of the age of the main character, anyway, one hundred years ago, especially in patriarchal societies, they indulged in this practice of taking young women and practically kidnapping them, in this case with gaslighting

The older man claims he is protecting the orphan, just like her old mother instructed him, that means she will stay with him, and become a sort of slave, in spite of the fact that he prevents her from doing some choirs, they have a servant, Saturna, for that, still, the ‘prisoner’ takes his slippers, brings things and obeys

 

Lope claims she is free, but then he also has those statements ‘take the woman, break her leg, and keep her home, if you want her to behave’, something along these lines, nevertheless, Tristana is suffocating and wants to go out, she tells Saturna that she is finding the old man insufferable, and begins to hate him

As she is out, she sees this young painter, Franco Nero is Horacio – I am still wondering how did this happen, after making movies with Luis Bunuel, Nero moved on to Piedone in Africa, some weird, ignoble pictures – and they hit it off, she comes to see him, and the artist wants to paint her, they become lovers soon

 

However, when Don Lope finds out, notwithstanding his assurances that ‘you are free’, he comes to claim his, what, lover, slave – he keeps mixing his ‘parental’ feelings and duties, but it seems this is in order to assert his authority, false as it is – only to prompt them to flee, the last part is surprising and bizarre

 https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/01/note-on-un-chien-andalou.html

 

https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/01/note-on-exterminating-angel.html

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

 

 

 

 

 

 

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