The films of
Luis Buñuel
Un chien andalou (1929)
Luis Buñuel 		  L'Âge d'or (1930)
Luis Buñuel 		  La Fièvre monte à El Pao (1959)
Luis Buñuel 		 
     
Through a series of disturbing and perplexing images in which the banal encounters the bizarre, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí propel us through their nightmare world of surrealist fantasy. A film which...  [More...]   After their first collaboration on Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali attempted to make an equally daring film in which surrealism and anti-bourgeois sentiment are combined to shocking effect...  [More...]   A comparatively obscure entry in the Buñuel canon, La Fièvre monte à El Pao certainly does not show the director at his best. Despite some memorable moments (most notably the film’s final five...  [More...]  
Le Journal d'une femme de chambre (1964)
Luis Buñuel 		  Simón del desierto (1965)
Luis Buñuel 		  Belle de jour (1967)
Luis Buñuel 		 
     
Le Journal d’une femme de chambre is arguably Luis Buñuel’s most caustic and unfettered assault on those institutions he rallied against throughout his life...  [More...]   This film has its origins in the story of St Simon Stylites, who is reputed to have spent 37 years on a pillar preaching Christianity to pilgrims until his death in 459 AD...  [More...]   This is a very unusual film, where the director Luis Bunuel plays intriguing games with one’s notions of normal convention and fantasy. As the film progresses and the viewer is persuaded to accept increasingly unlikely...  [More...]  
La Voie lactée (1969)
Luis Buñuel 		  Tristana (1970)
Luis Buñuel 		  Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Luis Buñuel 		 
     
Often cited as Luis Buñuel’s most overtly religious works, La Voie lactée is certainly one of his most intellectually demanding and shamelessly irreverent...  [More...]   Although it runs along very similar lines to Buñuel’s earlier masterpieces, Viridiana (1961) and Belle de jour (1967), Tristana is far less striking in its anti-establishment rhetoric and use of surrealist...  [More...]   This is a totally off the wall but brilliantly funny comment on bourgeois life in France of the early 1970s. As in his earlier film, Belle du jour, director Luis Bunuel mingles reality and fantasy to the point that...  [More...]  
Le Fantôme de la liberté (1974)
Luis Buñuel 		  Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)
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Following a line from his earlier film, La Voie lactée (1969), Luis Buñuel gives free reign to his own phantom of liberty in this highly entertaining satirical comedy...  [More...]   Luis Buñuel’s final film, made when the director was well into his seventies, is a typically subversive and highly entertaining romantic comedy...  [More...]    





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