'' Él '' ( Spanish : '' Him '' ; re-issued in the US as '' This Strange Passion '' ) ( 1953 ) , by Luis Buñuel , is a Mexican film based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto . It deals with many themes common to Buñuel ’s cinema , including a May – December romance between a woman and her obsessively overprotective '' bourgeois '' husband , and touches of surrealism . The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
1953 Cannes Film Festival
Él (film)