Candida Losada Movies

A woman who can no longer bear abusive treatment from her husband, takes off and goes to live in Barcelona where she starts up a relationship with another man. Just as her husband has located her through a detective, he meets with a horrendous accident on the way to the airport and ends up back home from the hospital, wrapped in bandages due to his burns and completely disfigured. His wife arrives from Barcelona, but not in time to see him before he dies. Then the oddest things start happening. Furniture flies through the air, weird lights come and go, and a myriad of supernatural phenomena make it readily apparent that the dead husband is out to "get" his wife for her extra-marital affair. A priest and an expert in the paranormal are called in to help, but to no avail. The husband's body is disinterred - though that does not seem to help either. When most everything has failed, the wife, her lover, and the master of the paranormal join forces to try to exorcise the spirit of her dead husband one last time. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

In this Spanish film, a question of honor motivates Don Rodrigo (Fernando Rey), and the lack of concern for honor by his relatives nearly causes him to die. Don Rodrigo is a somewhat stiff-necked nobleman. True, he has been out of the country for many years, and has no money, but he still has his title and his honor. These are his legacies. He means to bestow them on one of his two granddaughters, if he can determine which one is legitimate. Apparently, his dead son's wife played around. His daughter-in-law tries to have him committed, and insults him at every turn. Eventually he learns the truth, but it does not please him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Luis Buñuel's Tristana is a surreal criticism of Catholicism and the modern world, told through the story of the title character, who is portrayed by Catherine Deneuve. Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), the protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of the vulnerable Tristana, who leaves him when she falls in love with Horacio (Franco Nero). Unable to commit to him, she returns to Don Lope when she falls ill. He asks for her hand in marriage, and she accepts after losing her leg to cancer. She chooses to remain in a passionless union rather than be subject to the harsh realities of a society that refuses to change to the needs of women. Taken from the novel by celebrated author Benito Perez Galdos, the film -- wherein director Buñuel takes his usual jabs at religion and politics -- is a tribute to the author on the 50th anniversary of his death. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi