1001 films you must see before you die- Part X: 1970-1974

Tristana (1970), by Luis Buñuel, is a film based upon the eponymous novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, featuring Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey and shot in Toledo (Spain). In the U.S., it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The voices of French actress Catherine Deneuve and Italian actor Franco Nero were dubbed to Spanish. Tristana is Spanish-Franco-Italian co-production.
Tristana is an orphan adopted by nobleman Don Lope Garrido. Don Lope falls in love with her and thus treats her as daughter and wife from the age of nineteen, a bit of a scandal, but, by age twenty-one Tristana starts finding her voice, to demand to study music, art and other subjects with which she wishes to become independent. She meets the young artist Horacio Díaz, falls in love, and eventually leaves Toledo to live with him.
Here, the film varies from the novel, wherein she sees him as a possible means of leaving Don Lópe's house, but never lives with Horacio. When she falls ill, she returns to Don Lópe. The illness results in her losing a leg, which changes her prospects; here, the film substantially varies from the novel.