Luis Buñuel’s 1953 psychological melodrama Él arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition from The Criterion Collection, featuring a new 4K digital restoration with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack. Made during Buñuel’s Mexico period, the film tracks a marriage that curdles into jealousy and paranoia while skewering religious and social hypocrisy.
Film Info
Country: Mexico
Year: 1953
Runtime: 92 minutes
Black and White | 1.37:1 | Spanish
Spine: #1289
Special Features
4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition features:
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised by photographer Gabriel Figueroa Flores, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- New video essay on Buñuel by scholar Jordi Xifra
- Appreciation by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro
- 1981 interview with Buñuel by writer Jean-Claude Carrière
- 2009 panel discussion 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
Release Date
The Criterion edition of Él releases on November 18, 2025 and can be pre-ordered here.
