Él (Spanish: "Him"; re-issued in the US as This Strange Passion) (1953), by Luis Buñuel, is a Mexican romance film based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto. It deals with many themes common to Buñuel’s cinema, including a May–December romance between a woman and her obsessively overprotective "bourgeois" husband, and touches of surrealism. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.