Two Monks

Two Monks (Spanish: Dos monjes) is a 1934 Mexican expressionist melodrama film directed and co-written by Juan Bustillo Oro and starring Víctor Urruchúa and Carlos Villatoro.

Feeling ill, Javier returns to home early only to find Ana pushing herself away from Juan's embrace.

Sending Javier to his lawyer's office, Juan uses the occasion to see Ana one last time, but he is overcome by his emotions and tries to kiss her.

Javier, now gravely ill and mentally overcome, runs out of his cell to the monastery's pipe organ, where he plays a dissonant version of the song he had earlier been composing.

Turning around, he sees the prior and other monks gathered and envisions them as primitive grosteque figures about to attack him, and he collapses.

Its visual style was compared to German Expressionism by Criterion, who praised it as "vividly stylized, broodingly intense.

[9] On the other hand, Carl J. Mora dismissed it as a "timid experiment" in his Mexican Films: A General History, 1896-1976 (1981).