Death in the Garden

After a workers’ insurrection at an Amazonian diamond mine, a mixed bag of fugitives--including a soldier of fortune (Georges Marchal), a prostitute (Simone Signoret), and a missionary (Michel Piccoli)--flee into the jungle in search of the Brazilian border. Their pact to work together for mutual survival runs into harrowing snags, in Luis Buñuel’s mix of "Wages of Fear"-style thrills and dark social satire; Charles Vanel, Michèle Girardon, Tito Junco, Raúl Ramírez also star. 104 min. Standard; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; featurette; theatrical trailers. In French with English subtitles.