Tristana is a 1970 film by Luis Buñuel based on a novel by Benito Pérez Galdós, starring Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Tristana is an orphan who has been adopted by a nobleman called Don Lope Garrido. Don Lope falls in love with her and thus treats her as a daughter and wife from the age of 19, a bit of a scandal. By age 21 Tristana starts to find her voice, to demand to study music, art and other subjects with which she wishes to establish her independence. She meets a young artist called Horacio Díaz, falls in love, and eventually leaves Toledo to live with him. This varies from the novel, where she sees him as a possible means of leaving Don Lope's house, but never lives with Horacio. When she becomes ill she moves back in with Don Lope, her previous refuge. Her illness results in her losing one leg, which changes her prospects. Here is where t

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