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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.
Luis Buñuel. Writer: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. 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 subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the university there, where his close friends included Salvador Dalí and Federico García...
Jun 5, 2024 · Surrealism. Luis Buñuel (born February 22, 1900, Calanda, Spain—died July 29, 1983, Mexico City, Mexico) was a Spanish filmmaker who was a leading figure in Surrealism, the tenets of which suffused both his life and his work. An unregenerate atheist and communist sympathizer who was preoccupied with themes of gratuitous cruelty, eroticism ...
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Oscar Winner – Best Foreign Language Film. Oscar Nominee – Best Original Screenplay [2] BAFTA Film Award – Best Screenplay (with Jean-Claude Carrière) BAFTA Film Award nominee – Best Direction. BAFTA Film Award nominee – Best Soundtrack (with Guy Villette) French Syndicate of Cinema Critics ...
Nov 2, 2018 · Luis Buñuel was the greatest of all Spanish film-makers. He is also known as the greatest of all Surrealist film-makers – someone who kept returning to dreams and the unconscious, all the way ...
Luis Buñuel. Writer: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. 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 subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the university there, where his close friends included Salvador Dalí and Federico García...
Sep 4, 2017 · More than 30 features and perhaps the most famous short film ever made bulk up the legacy of Luis Buñuel. His career kicked off with a barber slicing his razor through a woman’s eyeball, in the scandalous opening to his 21-minute debut, Un chien andalou (1929), and ended with an explosion ripping through a Paris mall, at the close of That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) – with no shortage of shocks and sly provocations in between.
