As a young woman, Tristana (Catherine Deneuve) is orphaned and taken under the guardianship of Don Lope (Fernando Rey), a respected member of the community. However, Don Lope has a weakness for women and takes advantage of his innocent charge. When Tristana falls in love with artist Horacio (Franco Nero), she must learn to be more assertive in order to achieve independence from her nefarious guardian, or her blossoming relationship with Horatio is doomed.

* The screening on Sunday 21 January was introduced by Sally Faulkner (University of Exeter).

Sally Faulkner is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film Studies at the University of Exeter. Her research questions what is included and what is excluded in national and international film histories. She is the author of A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) and Literary Adaptations in Spanish Cinema (Tamesis, 2004).