An amoral parable of race, power and sexuality, this rarely seen Buñuel film is one of only two he made in English. In the American south, a black jazz musician (Hamilton) escaping a false rape charge lands on an island whose sole inhabitants are a bigoted gamekeeper (Scott) and his Lolita-esque teenage ward. How will they co-exist in their isolated world?
“The high contrast black and white photography, by Mexico’s greatest cinematographer, Gabriel Figueroa, gives the film a dreamlike, expressionist aura.” Dave Kehr, NY Times