A Woman Without Love: The Early Promise of an Iconic Auteur
More than a decade prior to the release of Belle de Jour, Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel directed this Mexican melodrama about the effects of infidelity on a family. https://youtu.be/KvhiILFqGJM At first it may not seem as if there is much that distinguishes the 1952 Mexican movie A Woman Without Love from other films of its era. The narrative generally never strays far from the confines of romantic melodrama, and the film features a constrained, yet lush and glamorous aesthetic clearly indebted to Classical Hollywood. However, upon further inspection it becomes clear that what makes A Woman Without Love stand out is that it represents nothing less than the