Luis Bunuel
After Un Chien Andalou, his famously surreal collaboration with Salvador Dali in his native Spain, Bunuel had spells as a producer in Europe, war-documentary editor in New York and Spanish-version supervisor in Hollywood before being offered a chance to direct in Mexico. Disconcertingly combining surrealism, Freudianism and austere realism, his first features were realised under tight budget and short production schedules. In his most prolific period, he employed a simple visual style and satyric savagery to explore his characteristic themes: the hypocrisy and invalidity of catholicism, the tyranny of bourgeois conformity and the evil of fascism. Bunuel's later films, made in France, were more complex in style and mainly touched sexual issues, but they retained the unique blend of experiment, anarchy and morality that made him one of cinema's most original and subversive artists.
| Filmography |
- Un Chien Andalou
- L’Age d’Or
- Los Olivados (1950)
- Susana (1950)
- A Woman Without Love (1951; o.t. Una Mujer sin Amor)
- This Strange Passion (1952; o.t. El)
- The Brute (1952; o.t. El Bruto)
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1952)
- The River and Death (1954; o.t. El Río y la muerte)
- Wuthering Heights (1954; o.t. Abismos de pasión)
- The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955; o.t. Ensayo de un crimen)
- Cela s'appelle l'aurore (1955)
- Death in the Garden (1956; o.t. La Mort en ce Jardin)
- Nazarin (1968)
- Fever Mounts at El Pao (1959; o.t. La Fievre Monte a El Pao)
- Island of Shame (1960; o.t. La Joven)
- Virdiana (1961)
- The Exterminating Angel (1962; o.t. El Ángel exterminador)
- Diary of a Chambermaid (1964; o.t. Le Journal d'une Femme
de Chambre)
- Belle de Jour (1967)
- The Milky Way (1969; o.t. La Voie Lactee)
- Tristana (1970)
- The Monk (1972; o.t. Le Moine)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972; o.t. Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie)
- The Phantom of Liberty (1974; o.t. Le Fantome de la Liberte)
- That Obscure Object of Desire (1977; o.t. Cet Obcsur objet
de Desir)