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Luis Buñuel
Highlighting the sly, subversive wit and cool but compassionate intelligence of the great Spanish director.
After kickstarting his career with a couple of controversial collaborations with Salvador Dalí – and both Un Chien andalou and L’Age d’or retain the capacity to shock audiences even today – the Spanish director Luis Buñuel established himself as the cinema’s preeminent surrealist with a series of superb films made in Mexico in the 1950s and early ’60s.
But Buñuel is best known for the films made after his return to Europe in the ’60s, where more generous budgets enabled him to work in colour with top cinematographers, with the brilliantly imaginative writer Jean-Claude Carrière, and with many of the biggest European stars of the time. Our films from Buñuel’s ‘mature’ period highlight his sly subversive wit, his cool but compassionate intelligence, and his astute understanding of the often perverse, irrational but always intriguing aspects of human fear and desire.
- Geoff Andrew
Belle de JourBelle de Jour
Drama1967100 minsDirector: Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel's provocative classic about a bored and neglected housewife (Catherine Deneuve) risks her reputation to take up a daring new hobby.
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the TurtlesBuñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Animation & Artists Moving Image201881 minsDirector: Salvador Simó
In a stranger-than-fiction tale befitting the master surrealist filmmaker himself, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles tells the story of how Luis Buñuel made his third film.
Un Chien AndalouUn Chien Andalou
Animation & Artists Moving Image192816 minsSilentDirector: Luis Buñuel
A scabrous study of desire, the subconscious and anti-clericalism - Buñuel and Dalí’s provocative first film is a classic of Surrealist cinema.
The Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Comedy197297 minsDirector: Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel's Oscar®-winning black comedy follows a group of wealthy friends who, for increasingly absurd and fanciful reasons, cannot manage to have a meal.
Death in the GardenDeath in the Garden
Action and Adventure195699 minsDirector: Luis Buñuel
A band of fugitives are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle in this subversive adventure tale from cinema's master provocateur, Luis Buñuel.
Speaking of BuñuelSpeaking of Buñuel
Documentary200099 minsDirector: José Luis López Linares and Javier Rioyo
José Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo’s incisive documentary about Luis Buñuel.
TristanaTristana
Drama197095 minsDirector: Luis Buñuel
A young orphan is sexually initiated by her older uncle, launching a cycle of imprisonment, hatred, and vengeance, in Luis Buñuel’s haunting study of sexual politics.