An emotionally underdeveloped poacher’s first experience with romantic love. One of Luis Buñuel’s favourite films, Poachers boldly tells of an emotionally underdeveloped poacher, his first experience with romantic love, and his mother’s obstructionism. Inspired by Franco’s description of his Spain as a ’peaceful forest’, this cruel – and at times raunchy and brutally incestuous – film was denied permission to go to Cannes and finally opened in Spain two months before Franco’s death. While its subversion comes more strongly through its visuals than its plot elements, Poachers is a masterpiece of artistic control and emotional compression.