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Luis Buñuel Portolés (Spanish: [ˈlwis βuˈɲwel poɾtoˈles]; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time.
- Childhood and Education
- Early Career
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- The Legacy of Luis Buñuel
Buñuel was born into a wealthy and devout Catholic family in Calanda, Spain. It was a place of deep faith, where many literally believed in 'The Miracle of Calanda', in which an amputee had his leg restored by the Virgin Mary. Buñuel's strict Jesuit education equated sex with sin, a connection that, once made, ran deep and never left him. Buñuel al...
Buñuel moved to Paris in 1925, where he went to movies obsessively, studied film-making under Jean Epstein, and wrote his first film reviews. After a violent break-up with Epstein, Buñuel became film editor for La Gaceta Literariain 1927. Together with Dalí, he explored the film techniques of slow motion, dissolves, and superimpositions. Among his ...
Unable to settle permanently in the U.S., Buñuel arrived in Mexico in 1943, when Mexican cinema was flourishing. In 1949 he made El Gran Calavera, (The Grand Madcap), a screwball comedy of mistaken identity, and a box office hit. Although Buñuel's view was that realistic films lacked "the poetry, the mystery, all that completes and enlarges tangibl...
In the later period of his career, Buñuel combined his enhanced professional techniques and use of narrative with his Surrealist take on reality. All the themes of his early work recur: the critique of bourgeois morals and organized religion, hypocrisy, the blurring of dream and reality, thwarted desire, repression, and obsession. In 1960, he retur...
Luis Buñuel created some of the most visually and emotionally shocking films of the 20th century, particularly his first two films, Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or, and his Mexican film, Los Olivadados. The opening scene of Un Chien Andalou has never been surpassed for its disturbing image of calm and matter-of-fact violence; repeated viewings do n...
- Spanish
- February 22, 1900
- Calanda, Spain
- July 29, 1983
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- Le journal d’une femme de chambre (1964) Céléstine (Jeanne Moreau) becomes a chambermaid in the country estate of the Monteil family. She soon discovers that her indulgence in the sexual frustrations/obsessions of her male employers may help advance her social and financial status.
- Nazarín (1959) Padre Nazario (Francisco Rabal) has an obsessive devotion to his faith. When the prostitute Andara (Rita Macedo) begs for shelter after she kills a prostitute, Nazario cleans her wounds and brings her back to health.
- La voie lactée (1969) Two vagrants – Pierre (Paul Frankeur) and Jean (Laurent Terzieff) – travel on a pilgrimage from Paris to Santiago de Compostela.
- La mort en ce jardin (1956) In an unnamed Latin American country, a group of social misfits (including a hooker and a priest, just to name a few) flee into the jungle in order to escape a political uprising.
Apr 15, 2005 · Articles in Senses. Web Resources. Luis Buñuel was a singular figure in world cinema, and a consecrated auteur from the start. Born almost with cinema itself, his work moves from surrealist experimentation in the 1920s, through commercial comedies and melodrama in the 1950s, to postmodernist cine d’art in the 1960s and ’70s.
- Dominique Russell
Writer. Director. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 0:42. Un chien andalou (1929) 1 Video. 20 Photos. The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and ...
Feb 13, 2024 · Still from Los olvidados ( The Forgotten) (1950), directed by Luis Buñuel (courtesy Photofest) Credit: Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley/Pho. In line with the movement’s leftist politics — many of ...
