Él
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Written by: Luis Alcoriza, Luis Buñuel, Mercedes Pinto
Produced by Óscar Dancigers
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