Luis Bunuel's EL (1953) - Criterion Collection DVD, Blu-ray & 4K Ultra HD

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Product Description: Spanish surrealist master Luis Buñuel’s fiendish tale of love gone wrong is among the most perverse and unsettling films he made during his two decades of exile in Mexico. Folding his own neuroses into an adaptation of Mercedes Pinto’s autobiographical novel, Buñuel crafts an expressionistically stylized nightmare in which a young woman (Delia Garcés) discovers that the outward sophistication of her new husband (Arturo de Córdova) masks disturbing depths of jealousy and paranoia. A characteristically raw indictment of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the director’s greatest excursion into melodrama, a vivid portrayal of society’s inability to restrain the irrational urges of the human id.

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Director: Luis Buñuel

Starring: Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Carlos Martínez Baena, Manuel Dondé, Rafael Banquells

Genre: Drama, Romance

Runtime: 93 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Spanish

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: November 18, 2025

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• DVD - Criterion Collection

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• Blu-ray - Criterion Collection

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• 4K Ultra HD - Criterion Collection

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DVD

• Codec: MPEG-2
• Resolution: 480i
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Encoding Format: 16:9
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

Blu-ray

• Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
• Resolution: 1080p
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• Region: Region A/1

4K Ultra HD

• Codec: HEVC / H.265
• Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
• HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
• Region: Region A/1

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• DVD: None
• Blu-ray: None
• 4K Ultra HD: None

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• DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
• Blu-ray: LPCM Mono
• 4K Ultra HD: LPCM Mono

SUBTITLES

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

4K Ultra HD: English

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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• New 4K digital restoration, supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, director of photography Gabriel Figueroa’s son, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New video essay on director Luis Buñuel by scholar Jordi Xifra
• Appreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
• Interview with Buñuel from 1981 by writer Jean-Claude Carrière, a longtime collaborator of the director's
• Panel discussion from 2009, moderated by filmmaker José Luis Garci
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by critic Fernanda Solórzano and an interview with Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent
• New cover by Eric Skillman and Polly Dedman

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PICTURES

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