One of Buñuel’s more straightforward films. However, this adventure still contains elements of surrealism and symbolism, provided mostly by the dense forest. Riffing off his hatred of Franco’s Spain, Buñuel paints a society struggling against oppression. It works both as an action film and a social commentary. Of a society torn between Catholicism and wanton pleasure. Death in the Garden is an entertaining, absorbing and thoughtful survival film. — Rob Aldam