A relic of Buñuel’s commercial period in Mexico, Susana offers up sex, sensationalism, and literal Sturm und Drang.  The vast majority of Luis Buñuel’s filmography was released before his ascension to the throne of surrealist cinema. The filmmaker may have first come into the public conscious in 1929 due to his radical vomit-inducing collaboration with Salvador Dali, Un Chien Andalou, but his career also included a largely fruitless seven-year Hollywood residency and an 18-year period in Mexico. Within those two decades, Buñuel churned out 21 films, nearly all melodramas or action films meant to appeal to large audiences.  Susana (1951) is very much a product of Buñuel’s more commercial